While on free trial - the cost management says I have spent over %75 in two weeks

Question

Under the cost management panel it appears that I have already accrued a $75 charge for my SQL server. I am doing development and am the only person who uses this DB - and rarely at that. How could I possibly be running up such a high charge? It make no sense - and I am quickly thinking of cancelling my Azure service.

Answer 1

Cost of Azure services does not necessarily depend on the level of their utilization. For pricing information, refer to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-sql-database/single/

Switch to serverless model whenever applicable if you want to minimize cost for services you don't use on regular basis

For more info, refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/tutorial-acm-opt-recommendations

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/plan-manage-costs

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Marcin