Microsoft Azure's popularity is growing especially in the small and mid sized markets. Pay-as-you-go and the 0 investment makes these companies consider moving to the cloud attractive. Microsoft engineers working in Azure guarantee a SLA of 99.9 % or more (depending on the type of business). The easiness of building infrastructures in Azure introduces a problem that has not been there before when IT was incorporated in the organisation: budget management. Before you had these endless and boring meetings about budget and spendings with the internal accountants to get a go and every dime was turned twice of not three times before a go was given. In Azure you can command a server that is capable to perform at 2000 DTU and it will cost you € 31.370,76 per month . Oeps! No kidding! "Sorry, I was just looking for something powerful" the developer smiled nervously in the meeting after the reception of the Azure invoice. But everybody will starts really screaming if t
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