This is a question on the pricing model of the azure synapse, how it works, and understanding the cost accrued/accumulated for developers who are doing self-study and exploring/learning the services.
For the same purpose, I purchased a pay-as-you-go service. The first question is -Is it the right scope/subscription for individuals who want to do practice or hands-on with Azure services?
Last Sunday i.e. 19 July 2020 (4 days ago) I provisioned 2 services (SQL server and Synapse SQL pool (data warehouse)).
Synapse SQL pool was set to 100 DWU and the service was immediately paused after creating it.
As per the billing I was expecting only to be charged 1.510 (since I had stopped the service and billing rate of 100 DWU is 1.510 per hour)
However on seeing today, i.e. 4 days since the services were provisioned I am seeing my accumulated charges to be 20.15 . Does anyone know how this works out to be?
I have raised an SR for this and awaiting a response from Microsoft.
Appreciate it if anyone could give me some leads.
Regards Lokesh
Did your bill include storage or was the $20 from compute alone? It would be reasonable for Synapse Data warehouse compute+storage: for 1 hour of DWU100 compute and 4 days of 1TB storage in central US region (1h * $1.51 + 4 * 24h * $0.19 = 1.51+18.24=$19.75).
The storage in ”old” Azure Data Warehouse comes with 1TB slots so you will be billed for 1TB even if you don’t use that all. With new Synapse on-demand you can use Azure Data Lake as your storage and it is billed by the actual usage.