[SOLAR_FIELDS]

They are insanely good at onboarding people onto it as well. I have a small startup just me and a cofounder right now and we pay $12 a month for 365 which includes all of Azure AD. Can start doing full integrations right away to lock us in.

[eastbound]

This is awesome! I went 6 times to Microsoft AD’s pricing page and I could never figure out how much it would be! Then I remembered it would be bundled with Azure, which, like any cloud, has the “It’s 0.0062$ per unit of consumption, so sometimes it’s 2€ per month, sometimes it’s 647€, we never know ourselves, good luck!” effect.

Has anyone else sometimes avoided a cloud service because the pricing was opaque?

[vinay_ys]

They are much nicer in recent years and are quite transparent with pricing – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compare-micros... See full pdf for all plans: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2139145

Basically if you have a Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise license (E3 or E5 license – which you need if have business people in your company who can't live without Excel on desktop), you get Azure AD Premium (P1 or P2) bundled for free.

As I was writing this comment I just went looking at their AD page and found they have launched a new thing called Entra which includes Decentralized ID. And there's a white paper – interesting.

[logifail]

> you get Azure AD Premium (P1 or P2) bundled for free

Last time I checked what was included with Azure AD the activity logging data was where it looked like things could get expensive. Exporting your authentication logs and/or keeping them for more than a week was a premium add-on.

[pid-1]

M365 Business Premium includes P1 and costs 22 USD per user. You also get MDM (Intune) and other security related stuff.

[FreakLegion]

Be sure and look into Microsoft for Startups at some point: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups. It gets you Office and GitHub Enterprise for free, among other things.