Azure: Nice dashboard, shame about the costs¶

Based on this pipeline (so just a starter pipeline): Foundation for a secure Azure deployment pipeline , these are guesstimates for comparison.

Best case – Clean DevSecOps setup with budget guardrails¶

€160/month

• Compute (Azure DevOps agents, Functions): €40

• Blob Storage (Cool tier mostly): €20

• Egress (build results, deploy logs): €20

• Azure DevOps pipelines: €30

• Monitoring (minimal retention): €15

• Key Vault, Resource Groups: €35

You’ve made peace with YAML pipelines and tag your resources religiously. Azure billing weeps with boredom.

Worst case – Spaghetti pipeline, forgotten dev resources¶

€380/month

• Compute (Function triggers + test VMs): €80

• Blob Storage (some in Hot tier, oops): €35

• Egress (someone enabled CDN?): €65

• Monitoring (Log Analytics left open): €70

• Azure DevOps hosted agents scaling unchecked: €60

• Surprise Licensing (SQL Server, Premium tier): €70

Azure: where the default setting is “Yes, bill me.”