Pricing · Workload Sizing Calculator
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Describe your workloads, utilisation, environments and availability. Get a recommended server, storage and network configuration with a transparent monthly estimate.
Workload sizing
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2Requirements
3Recommendation
Define your estate
Workloads
Add applications
Environments
Production + non-production
Utilisation
Peak and average
Availability
Choose resilience
Your inputs
Recommended build
Monthly estimate
Server plans
Storage tier
Network design
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Your workloads
Describe one representative workload — we scale it across the count.
12
How many instances of this shape you run.
8 vCPU
What the workload needs today, not what it is on.
32 GB
The RAM-to-core ratio picks the flavour.
500 GB
OS, data and logs on attached volumes.
45%
Where the workload actually sits most of the time.
80%
We size to peak plus 15% burst headroom.
20%
Drives elasticity and the year-3 projection.
Operating system
Windows adds licence cost; we carry the mobility.
Environment
Non-production carries lighter protection and cost.
Availability requirement
Availability decides how many copies of the estate you hold.
Recommended server plan
Scalable VMs · Flex
A 45% average against a 80% peak (and 20% growth) is a scaling problem, not a bigger-server problem.
Per workload
8 vCPU · 32 GB
Instances
24 (12 × 2)
Total provisioned
192 vCPU · 0.8 TB RAM
Scaling
Live resize + scaling group
Storage tier
Standard Block Storage
Attached volumes12 TB
ProfileBalanced, everyday IOPS
ReplicationMirrored across two AZs
Backup target19 TB object storage
Retention35 days + archive tier
Network configuration
Published, inspected, balanced
Isolated virtual network with subnets across two availability zones
Perimeter firewall HA pair with IPS enabled
Layer 7 load balancer with TLS offload, managed WAF attached
Active-standby pair with health checks
Committed bandwidth from 1150 Mbps, egress included
Projected flat fee
USD 12,082
per month, all-in · USD 1,007 per workload
ComputeUSD 7,040
StorageUSD 3,017
Network & securityUSD 817
Managed operationsUSD 1,207
Year 3 at 20% growthUSD 17,398
How we got to this shape
Sized to your 80% peak plus 15% burst headroom, so the plan holds on the worst day rather than the average one.
HA pair: a standby copy in a second zone, which doubles instance and volume counts.
Linux images carry no licence uplift.
Production defaults applied: WAF, IPS, 35-day retention and 24/7 operations.
Everything above sits in one flat monthly fee — no per-GB egress, no per-ticket support charge, no idle-capacity tax.
Indicative sizing only. An architect validates it against your real workloads before anything is committed —request a sizing review.
What sizing decides
Six inputs that change the whole recommendation
Shape, not hardware
The RAM-to-core ratio decides the flavour family before anything else — memory-bound and latency-bound workloads want different silicon.
Average vs peak
A wide gap between the two is an elasticity problem. We recommend scaling rather than a permanently larger, permanently idle server.
Operating system
Windows estates carry licence cost and mobility rules; Linux does not. Either way the licence sits inside the fee.
Environment
Production carries inspection, retention and 24/7 operations. Test and development do not need to pay for all of it.
Availability
Single-zone, HA pair or active-active changes how many copies of compute and storage you hold — the biggest single cost lever here.
Growth
Expected growth sets the headroom we reserve and the year-3 projection, so re-baselining is a planned event rather than a surprise.
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