Microsoft Azure server pricingUS company

Virtual Machines provisions Linux and Windows servers in seconds. Source

A deallocated VM is not billed for instance usage. A VM that is stopped but still allocated keeps being billed. Source

New customers get select services free up to monthly limits for 12 months, and 65+ services stay free. To keep the 12-month benefit you must move to pay as you go within 30 days of the trial. Source

Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Spot Virtual Machines are offered as discounts. Source

Data transfer out to the internet is free up to 100GB per month. Source

Korea Central (Seoul) and Korea South (Busan) regions are available. Source

Basic SKU public IPs were retired on September 30, 2025, so Standard SKU is required. Source

Azure Database for PostgreSQL runs PostgreSQL for you. Source

Backup storage is included at no extra cost up to 100% of your provisioned server storage. Extra backup storage is billed per GB per month. Source

With high availability on, a separate standby replica is created and data is committed to both synchronously. The standby uses the same vCores, storage and network settings as the primary. Source

By default the standby sits in a different availability zone. You can also place both in the same zone. Source

Backups are automatic with a retention of 7 days by default, up to 35 days. Backups are kept even for stopped servers. Source

Geo-redundant backup can only be chosen when the server is created and cannot be changed afterwards. Source

Blob Storage stores files as objects, with hot, cool, cold and archive access tiers. Source

Minimum storage periods are 30 days for cool, 90 days for cold and 180 days for archive. Source

Data transfer out to the internet is free up to 100GB per month. Source

Deleting, overwriting or moving a blob before the minimum period triggers an early deletion charge, prorated for the days missing. Source

The archive tier is offline, so data needs a restore that takes hours before it can be read. Source