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An enterprise is planning to migrate several on-premises datacenter workloads to Microsoft Azure. The finance and IT leadership teams need to develop a comprehensive cost management strategy before starting the migration.
The organization must accomplish two key financial objectives:
Which strategy correctly combines the Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator and the Azure Pricing Calculator to achieve these objectives?
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The Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator and the Azure Pricing Calculator are complementary cloud financial planning tools designed for different stages and scopes of cost estimation. The TCO Calculator models the financial impact of migrating existing on-premises workloads to the cloud by factoring in hardware refresh cycles, software licenses, power, cooling, facility real estate, and administrative labor. In contrast, the Azure Pricing Calculator provides granular, itemized pricing configurations for specific cloud services based on expected resource utilization, performance tiers, and licensing models.
Combining both calculators allows organizations to build a defensible migration strategy. The TCO Calculator answers the macro-level question of whether moving to the cloud makes financial sense over time, while the Azure Pricing Calculator answers the micro-level question of what specific Azure architecture deployments will cost on a monthly operational budget.
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