Azure pricing models
Azure has multiple pricing models. It virtually has a model for almost every type of customer. From free accounts for students and developers to pay-as-you-go, from enterprise agreements to cloud solution provider partner model. Apart from these account types, there are add-on pricing and discounts like reserved VM instances and Azure hybrid benefits.
Azure hybrid benefits
When a virtual machine is provisioned on Azure, there are two types of cost are involved. These two types of cost are the resource cost for running the virtual machine and operating system license cost. Although enterprise agreement customers get some discounts compared to other accounts fro the pricing perspective, Azure provides another offer for them. It is known as Azure hybrid benefits. In this scheme, existing enterprise agreement customers can bring their on-premise licenses for operating system for creating virtual machine on Azure and Azure will not charge any cost of the license. The cost savings...