CSP – ARM Pricing Calculator

Introduction

The tool can be used to estimate the cost of hosting a solution in an Azure CSP subscription. It takes the ARM Template as an input and gives the estimated costs as an output. It has been built as a sample and currently estimates Virtual machine and its components including Compute hours, Storage, Network, Public IP and Software costs.

The tool does the following:

• Fetch the Rate card for Azure CSP
• Read the resources defined in the template
• Map the resources to the appropriate meters and provide cost estimates
• The estimates can then be exported into a csv file.

The idea is to help CSP partners who are performing integration by providing the tool and source code to assist them to incorporate this feature at their end.

Prerequisites

The following are the prerequisites for using the CSP ARM Pricing Calculator:

•   The CSP Partner has already created the Customer and one or more Azure subscriptions for the customer. 
  

•   A computer with Visual Studio 2015 installed.
  

•   An account that has Admin Agent privileges in the CSP account.
  

•   An account that has Global Admin privileges will be needed during setup and configure of the Azure AD Application
  

Deployment

Please refer to the deployment guide

Limitations

It has been built as a sample and currently supports Virtual machine and its components including compute hours, storage, network, public ip and software costs. The source code is provided to enable the CSP Partners to understand the steps and logic involved and may choose to build their own. It does not support advanced scenarios of ARM templates like nested templates, copy index, etc. It shows the estimates based on CSP Partner Pricing and does not include pricing of hosting any 3rd party services or margins of the CSP Partner/reseller. The tool and source code is provided as a sample and no support is provided.

Contributions

Please refer to contributing.md

License

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