Good day,
When analysing the Azure Costs of our TimeXtender Resource Group I suddenly noticed a spike in the costs, coming mostly from an increate in Storage Account and VM costs.
To my knowledge, the setup of TimeXtender has not been changed during this period. Are there any methods to analyse these increase in Storage and VM costs, as the storage costs have more than doubled?
Best answer by KCMT
There were multiple factors at play here. As we switched from CSP, I was looking at a cutover mid month, explaining the lower amount in 202505.
However, in the end it looked like that for some reason some Storage tasks weren’t running (successfully) for a longer period, resulting in a increase of storage costs up to €50 per day. In Azure Data Studio I identified the folder sizes, deleted the big folders and let TimeXtender recreate them. Now I’m back at ± €8 a day storage costs instead of €50 😅
+8Hi,
storage accounts scale with storage consumed, tiering, operations etc. You can also have reserved capacity if you have more than 100TB in your billing account. So for storage you would need to check the trend in storage and see if the number of operations has changed. If you have changed your tier to hot from a lower tier, that will also influence cost. If you have a reservation and you went over it, you get pay-as-you-go pricing for the overage.
Virtual machines are similar: pricing scales with the number of cores, attached disks can add up, and VMs can also have reservations that you can go over. If you install SQL Server on a VM, you will incur SQL license costs for that VM if your subscription is not under a dev/test agreement.
It can also be that you have an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft that changes, with new prices as a result.
tl;dr: it depends, look at the metrics for the resources to understand where the increase comes from.
+5Hey
There were multiple factors at play here. As we switched from CSP, I was looking at a cutover mid month, explaining the lower amount in 202505.
However, in the end it looked like that for some reason some Storage tasks weren’t running (successfully) for a longer period, resulting in a increase of storage costs up to €50 per day. In Azure Data Studio I identified the folder sizes, deleted the big folders and let TimeXtender recreate them. Now I’m back at ± €8 a day storage costs instead of €50 😅
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