Azure Pricing

Name: Azure Pricing
Author: vinayaklatthe

vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills

55 installs
165 repo stars
Updated June 18, 2026
vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills

Helps with ai & agent building tasks.

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azure-pricing is a Claude Code skill for ai & agent building. It helps solo builders move faster with AI-assisted development.

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Azure Pricing by the numbers

55 all-time installs (skills.sh)
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Helps with ai & agent building tasks.

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Azure Security Pricing & Cost Estimation

Security services on Azure mix consumption-based (e.g., data ingestion, transactions) and per-resource/seat pricing. This skill helps reason about and estimate costs and identify optimisation levers. Always confirm current rates on official pricing pages.

When to use

Producing a cost estimate or optimising spend for a security solution.

Key cost drivers

Microsoft Sentinel — Driven mainly by data ingestion (per GB) and retention. Use

Commitment Tiers, route low-value logs to Auxiliary/Basic logs or ADX, and avoid duplicate ingestion.

Defender for Cloud — Foundational CSPM is free; Defender plans are per-resource

(e.g., per server/hour, per 10K transactions, per vCore). Enable plans where risk justifies.

Microsoft Defender XDR / Purview / Entra ID P2 — Largely per-user licensing (E5 /

add-ons) rather than consumption.

Key Vault — Per-operation (secrets/keys/certs) and HSM pool charges (Managed HSM).
Azure Firewall / Front Door / DDoS — Deployment + data processing charges.

Approach

1. List components and identify which are consumption vs licensed. 2. Estimate quantities — e.g., Sentinel daily GB, number of protected servers/resources. 3. Use the Pricing Calculator to model the estimate; add it to the workload TCO. 4. Apply optimisation — commitment tiers, log tiering, right-size Defender plan coverage, remove unused resources. 5. Validate licensing — Confirm whether E5/add-ons already cover a capability before adding consumption cost.

Guardrails

Pricing changes — always verify against the live pricing page and your agreement (EA/MCA/CSP).
Sentinel ingestion is the most common cost surprise — plan log tiering up front.
Don't disable needed protection purely for cost; optimise scope instead.

Example prompts

Estimate the cost of Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud for my environment.
What are the main cost drivers for Microsoft security services?
How do I optimise security spend across licensing and consumption?
Help me budget for security ingestion and per-resource Defender plans.

Microsoft Learn

Azure Pricing Calculator: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/calculator/
Sentinel pricing/billing: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/sentinel/billing
Defender for Cloud pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/defender-for-cloud/
Cost management: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/