When performing a TCO analysis for migrating a legacy on-premises database to Azure SQL, which hidden cost is most likely to be overlooked?
Trap 1: Power and cooling
This is a standard facility cost identified during the TCO audit phase.
Trap 2: Software licensing
Licensing is usually a known upfront cost factored into the initial migration plan.
Trap 3: Hardware maintenance
This is a direct cost of on-premises infrastructure that is removed upon migration.
- A
Power and cooling
Why wrong: This is a standard facility cost identified during the TCO audit phase.
- B
Data egress fees
Egress fees for transferring data out of the cloud provider to on-premises systems are often underestimated.
- C
Software licensing
Why wrong: Licensing is usually a known upfront cost factored into the initial migration plan.
- D
Hardware maintenance
Why wrong: This is a direct cost of on-premises infrastructure that is removed upon migration.