Pricing of Azure Virtual Network Manager

The key to effectively managing your budget and optimizing costs is being familiar with top Azure Virtual Network Manager pricing. The basic pricing for Azure Virtual Network Manager is determined by the number of managed networks and regions supported, the charges also apply to features and services.

Key Factors Influencing Pricing

• Number of Managed Networks: There is a cost to you when using the Azure Virtual Network Manager, based on the Number of Virtual Networks (VNets) managed. The bigger organization with many such VNets is what causes extra cost in this case than for smaller one having only few VNets.
• Number of Regions: This is more about the total price you will pay, and not so much in this context, because it also cost how many Azure regions where you manage VNets. Each region beyond the first adds to your costs if your network spans multiple regions.
• Feature Usage: Service and Feature Charges — Using specific features and services within Azure Virtual Network Manager can affect pricing as well. Possible Additional Cost Features
• VNet Peering Charges: The VNet peering charges are according to volume of data which is transferred between the networks that was peered. Compute cost includes both in (ingress) and out (egress) data transfers.
• VPN Gateways: How VPN gateway is used determines the monthly cost for that use based on below table, as well as how it affects data transfer and a connection duration charge. DDoS Protection and Azure Firewall are both additional security features that have individual pricing structures.
• Data Transfer Costs: Transfer Fees can be a large part of final price Transfers within the same VNet are often free, transfers between VNets or cross-region can incur charges; and transferring out to on-premises networks also costs money.

How to Estimate Costs

For a precise analysis of the costs associated with using Azure Virtual Network Manager visit azure Pricing Calculator every time. You just describe your network (number of VNets, regions, and features that you want) and it gives back an estimate tailored for you.

Through the Azure Pricing Calculator:

• Get to the Calculator: Go to Azure Pricing Calculator.
• Networking Services: Networking Add networking components like Virtual Network Manager, VNet peering and VPN Gateway Choose “Networking” from the available services.
• Input Details: Detail the number of VNets, regions and estimated data transfer volumes.
• See Estimate: you will enter your input parameters and the calculator will give an estimated montlhy price

Example Pricing Scenarios

Scenario 1: Single Region, Few VNets

• Managed VNets: 3
• Regions: 1
• Components: Simple Network Security Groups, minimum data transfer
• Pricing: Low end of the scale, since it is a small survey and not universal in scope.

Scenario 2: More regions, lots of network

• Managed VNets: 10
• Regions: 3
• Used Features: VNet peering, VPN gateways, Advanced Security Protection
• Estimated Cost: At the upper edge due to very feature-intensive and multi-regional nature.

If you think about it, in the big picture of cloud computing, network management is a critical functionality for proper operation and communication signaling across disparate nodes. Of course, Microsoft Azure offers you quite a bit more than just this and that is what we are going to explore shortly but again, the topic of Azure Virtual Network Manager would always be one of the basic tool for managing virtual networks. In this post, I will go through everything you should know about Azure Virtual Network Manager. Including what it is, the features and benefits, typical use cases and best practices to ensure that you use this tool in a manner that befits your workloads.