Microsoft Purview, formerly known as Azure Purview, is a unified data governance service that enables automated scanning and classifying data at scale. This tool offers users the ability to effectively manage their data estate from a single location: the Microsoft Purview governance portal.
In this article, we will highlight the major components affecting its pricing.
## Why Understand Purview Pricing?
Microsoft Purview operates on a Pay-As-You-Go model. While the flexibility of this model is beneficial, understanding its various cost components can greatly aid in financial planning and budgeting.
## Key Factors Impacting Pricing
### Direct Costs
1. **Microsoft Purview Data Map**: The Data Map provides a comprehensive view of your data across various sources and aids in automated data discovery, cataloging, and classification. The cost of using this feature will depend on the volume and complexity of your data.
2. **Data Estate Insights**: Data Estate Insights offers a detailed view of your data estate across on-premises, multi-cloud, and Software as a Service (SaaS) data sources. Pricing for this feature depends on the scale and frequency of your data scans.
### Indirect Costs
1. **Managed Resources**: When you provision an account, a storage account is created to facilitate secure scanning, and the cost for this storage is charged separately. Furthermore, Event Hubs may be configured to enable monitoring with Atlas Kafka topics events, with separate charges.
2. **Azure Private Endpoint**: Azure private endpoints are used to allow secure access to the catalog over a private link for users on a virtual network (VNet). The setup and usage of these private endpoints could lead to additional costs.
3. **Self-hosted Integration Runtime (SHIR)**: Self-hosted integration runtime requires infrastructure, which results in extra costs.
4. **Virtual Machine Sizing**: The costs associated with the Virtual Machines required to distribute the scanning workload efficiently also need to be considered.
5. **Microsoft 365 License**: To create sensitivity labels for use in Microsoft Purview, an active Microsoft 365 license is necessary. This enables automatic labeling.
6. **Azure Alerts**: These alerts notify customers of infrastructure or application issues, with separate charges applicable.
7. **Cost Management Budgets & Alerts**: Automatic alerts are used to monitor Azure usage and spending based on Azure resource consumption.
8. **Multi-cloud Egress Charges**: If you are scanning multi-cloud data sources running native services, consider the egress charges associated with these operations.
### Frequently Asked Questions
**Q1: What is the Pay-As-You-Go model for Microsoft Purview? **
A1: Pay-As-You-Go model means you only pay for what you use, making it a flexible and cost-effective solution. However, the actual costs can vary based on multiple factors such as the volume of your data, frequency of scans, and other resources used.
**Q2: What are the direct costs associated with Microsoft Purview? **
A2: The direct costs primarily include the Microsoft Purview Data Map and Data Estate Insights. These costs depend on the volume and complexity of your data and the scale and frequency of your data scans.
**Q3: What are some of the indirect costs to consider when budgeting for Microsoft Purview? **
A3: Indirect costs include managed resources, Azure private endpoints, self-hosted integration runtime costs, virtual machine sizing, Microsoft 365 licensing, Azure alerts.
Pricing page: Pricing - Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Azure
What would this look like for an SMB client that wants automated data governance? Here's a snapshot of a specific client requirement.
- Just under 300-users
- Appropriately 3TBs of data that will be Microsoft cloud native (Teams, SPO, OneDrive)
- All on premise is being retired
- Data is SaaS apps is not yet in scope
- No external compliance requirements currently
- Client is creating their own internal policies and wants to align it with IT controls for enforcement and reporting.
Is there a straightforward way to estimate costs for a smaller client like this?