Azure Linux VM sizing and pricing info

Azure VM Bs-series are economical virtual machines that provide a low-cost option for workloads that typically run at a low to moderate baseline CPU performance, but sometimes need to burst to significantly higher CPU performance when the demand rises. These workloads don’t require the use of the full CPU all the time, but occasionally will need to burst to finish some tasks more quickly. Many applications such as development and test servers, low traffic web servers, small databases, micro services, servers for proof-of-concepts, build servers, and code repositories fit into this model.

Below are 2 examples of running Linux on Azure VM with VM sizing and pricing info:

01. Standard B1ms (1 vCPU, 2 GB memory) with Linux, price ~ 20 USD/mo
– Price ~$19.28/month PAYG
– Price ~$11.25/month (~42% saving) 1-year reserved

free -m
total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
 1796       1524        271         28        159        941
-/+ buffers/cache:        422       1373
df -lh
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        30G  5.2G   23G  19% /
tmpfs           899M     0  899M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1       3.9G  8.0M  3.7G   1% /mnt/resource

02. Standard B2s (2 vCPUs, 4 GB memory), with Linux, price ~ 38.5 USD/mo
– Price ~$38.55/month PAYG
– Price ~$22.50/month (~42% saving) 1-year reserved

free -m
total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
 3921         306        3139           0         475        3382
Swap:             0           0           0
df -lh
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev
tmpfs           393M  684K  392M   1% /run
/dev/sda1        29G  2.0G   27G   7% /
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda15      105M  3.6M  101M   4% /boot/efi
/dev/sdb1       7.9G   36M  7.4G   1% /mnt
tmpfs           393M     0  393M   0% /run/user/1000

Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/