Hi,
I am a bit amazed about the cost to run Dynamics AX on Azure for about 50-70 users. Initially it was estimated at about 3500 euro per month..but since I mentioned that Azure needs everything duplicate....it seems more towards 8500 euro per month...In particular the SQL Enterprise licenses count hard.
Although I believe AX is a great product (might be improved with HTML5 (AX7), web api, native cloud, and C#) I wish we did not choose Dynamics AX.
I do not understand how Microsoft wants that we - customers - run in the Azure cloud with these invoices.. a private cloud with SPLA licensing is much more interesting. You can schedule with your private cloud partner the maintenance and thus reduce every server and license by two. Of course you accept that the system might be offline and if hardware breaks there is a problem. However, the private cloud also has a multitude of servers in different datacentra and < 2hrs repair services and external backup options (in Azure, Google or AWS).
Is there a way to schedule the maintenance of the hypervisor (Azure) towards the weekend like in a private cloud? Can Microsoft not fix hardware within 2 hrs? Is there a way to downsize the number of CPU's or SQL licences if everything needs to be double. Why not choose 2 SQL cores times 2 servers instead of 4 cores times 2 servers = 8? Basically you need 4. And if one server breaks..oke just wait a will when the other cluster is recovered and everything is slow for a while.
How does the roadmap of AX7 look like/ Is a Native Cloud with less licenses and costs included?
Does anybody know where to post this to the Azure team? And product development team of AX? Maybe give the Microsoft employees less free credits so they also feel how costly tons of redundancy, cpu and cores are? And a penalty on all those servers running for nothing...waste of energy and CO2 pollution...
Sorry. I am in a bad mood if first 40K was estimated and it becomes 100K..the 40K / year was already amazing. Can anybody tell me what companies are in Azure and why not in private cloud?
J.