Module 7:

Pricing & Limitations

Cost
Activities
Data Integration Units
Data Flow Compute
Wider Platform Orchestration

Resource Limitations
Cost
Azure Price Calculator

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
Azure Price Calculator – Data Factory

£ ???

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
Data Factory Pricing – IR Type

Activity Data Handling Pipeline Activity Execution

Runs Compute per Hour Duration per Hour

Azure IR x1000 Int. Ext.

£0.75 £0.19 £0.004 £0.00019

x1000 Int. Ext.

Hosted IR
£1.12 £0.07 £0.001 £0.0001

Copy Delete Azure Function

Copy A to B Delete File Run Function

* Prices quoted for UK South Azure Region charged in Pounds Sterling (£) on 27th Sept 2020.
£2.13 per Month
Data Factory Pricing – Data Flow & SSIS Compute

Number of Number of VM Uptime SQL Server

Compute Cores VM Instances Per Hour Licence Type
8x Cores
General
Purpose
Data Flows N/A 8 Hours a
day
£823.54 per
Month

8x Cores
Standard
SSIS IR • Standard
8 Hours a
day
• Enterprise £693.32 per
Month

* Prices quoted for UK South Azure Region charged in Pounds Sterling (£) on 27th Sept 2020.
Data Factory Pricing – Operations

Entity
Monitoring
Read/Write

Operations

Per 50,000 = £0.37 Per 50,000 = £0.19

* Prices quoted for UK South Azure Region charged in Pounds Sterling (£) on 27th Sept 2020.
Data Factory Pricing – Inactive Pipelines

“A pipeline is considered inactive if it has no associated

Inactive Pipelines trigger or any runs within the month.
An inactive pipeline is charged at £0.597 per month.”
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/data-factory/data-pipeline/

* Prices quoted for UK South Azure Region charged in Pounds Sterling (£) on 27th Sept 2020.
How Much Does My Pipeline Cost?

Consumption
How Much Does My Pipeline Cost?
How Much Does My Data Platform Solution Cost?
Resource Limitations
Data Factory Limitations
50 Data Factory Instances per Subscription

40 Activities per Data Factory Pipeline

3 Active Data Flow Debug Sessions per Data Factory

Lookup

Lookup 5,000 Rows of Data Returned per Lookup (No Error if More)

Minimum Tumbling Window Trigger – 15mins

Azure Function

Function 4min Client Response Timeout Using Azure Functions Activity

mrpaulandrew.com/2020/01/29/azure-data-factory-resource-limitations/
Module 7:
Pricing & Limitations
Cost
Data Integration Units
Data Flow Compute
Wider Platform
Orchestration

Resource Limitations