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A logistics provider is considering moving its fleet tracking database and application servers from a co-located hosting facility to Azure. The finance department requires a report that estimates the potential savings of shifting from their current hardware, maintenance, electricity, and IT labor costs to a cloud consumption model over a three-year period. Which tool should the provider use to generate this comparative analysis?

  1. A
    Azure Pricing Calculator
  2. Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) CalculatorCevap
  3. C
    Azure Cost Management and Billing
  4. D
    Azure Advisor

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Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
The Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator is designed to compare the costs of running your current on-premises or co-located workloads against the cost of running equivalent workloads in Azure. It allows you to input details about your current physical servers, storage, network, electricity, and IT administration labor to generate a detailed report showing potential savings over time.

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1
Identify the primary goal of the organization's request.
The goal is to compare current co-located infrastructure costs (including hardware, maintenance, electricity, and labor) with the cost of running equivalent workloads in Azure to estimate potential savings.
This is a pre-migration cost comparison scenario.
2
Evaluate the tools based on their specific purposes.
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator compares on-premises/co-located costs to Azure, while the Pricing Calculator estimates new cloud-only deployments, and Cost Management tracks already-deployed resources.
Choosing the correct tool requires distinguishing between pre-migration comparison, pre-migration estimation, and post-migration management.

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Distinguishing between Azure cost estimation tools (Pricing Calculator vs. TCO Calculator).
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