It only costs $725 to simply kick the tires and check out theRemote Monitoring sample of AZ IoT Suite!
Am I reading this right? Please help me understand.
When you go to azureiotsuite.com and you add a new Remote Monitoring suite, here is the list of services it spins up (and I added the pricing for these as of today):
- $0 - Azure IoT Hub (1 high-frequency unit) Free for 8000 msgs
- $69.19 - Azure Stream Analytics (3 streaming units)
- $50 - Azure DocumentDB (1 S2 instance)
- $.06 - Azure Storage (1 GRS standard, 1 LRS standard, 1 RA-GRS standard) $pennies
- $595.20 - Azure App Services (2 S1 instances, 2 P1 instances)
- $11.16 - Azure Event Hub (1 basic throughput unit) $11.16
~$725! wooo! That is $725 to prototype keeping track of the temperature with your Arduino in your living room, folks.
This is the most expensive exploration/trial in a software service I think I've ever seen in my career (ok, maybe not... there's also Xamarin :) ). Surely I've misunderstood something here. Watching BUILD and related video all about Azure IoT this week, I heard repeatedly, "it's all about the developers" - meaning, MS loves devs tinkering because it leads to experience and familiarity when it comes time to build real solutions at work. Want me to come to work and pitch platform choices with MS experience under my belt, or some competitor?
I don't think I need to even begin to explain how Azure IoT is 100% unreachable to tinkering devs. (assuming the above is correct).