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I need to get my data off of azure sql or help with billing

Michael Neumeier 0 Reputation points
2025-10-31T14:21:07.0433333+00:00

Azure has been over charging my organization to the point we need to pull our database off and go with someone else. When we signed up we didn't know we had General Purpose (Most budget friendly) server tier enabled and Azure has been taking around $400 out of our business bank account a month.

We had no idea this was going on & we're extremely disappointed. Can someone help us reduce this bill or get us off of Azure so we can continue business operations? We need a recovery option to get our data.

Thanks,

Mike

Azure SQL Database
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  1. Erland Sommarskog 127.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-10-31T23:02:45.5433333+00:00

    Reducing the monthly cost for upcoming months is perfectly possible. There are plenty of alternatives for Azure SQL Database that go for less 400 $/month. Although, the caveat is that they are less able. Since I don't know anything about your workload or how big your database is, I can't say how low you can go. There are editions that are very cheap - but they are only fit for very light workloads.

    If you want to take the data out of Azure, about the only way is to extract a bacpac.

    As for getting money back for past months, you can open a support case for billing, but I would not have much hope, unless you can show that something has gone wrong on the Microsoft side.

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