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The original was posted on /r/azure by /u/cdigioia on 2023-08-12 02:25:16.

I have a personal database (super simple) that I've migrated from SQL Server Developer Edition on my PC, to Azure SQL.

• Basic DTU Service Tier ~$5/month.

That's the cheapest I've found; works great. It seems to be the cheapest option.

• There's also Serverless, with minimum settings, is $0.000145/second.

But the Serverless auto-pause minimum setting is one hour. So anytime I ping this database and spin it up, it will run for a minimum 1 hour.

.000145 * 60 * 60 = $0.522 minimum, everytime I spin up. Spin up once a day, and it's already $15.66/month.

Thus serverless, while cheap, will still be signifcantly moremore expensive than the basic DTU model server.

• Is my interpretation of Serverless costs, correct?

• Anyway to go even cheaper than $5/month?

  • No that's not a lot, but it's kind of an exercise to see how low it can go.