{"id":20811,"date":"2017-11-30T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=20811"},"modified":"2018-01-20T09:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T09:51:14","slug":"there-are-732-hours-in-an-azure-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=20811","title":{"rendered":"There Are 732 Hours In An Azure Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that the average month in Azure is 732 hours long? And that when you ask an Azure pricing tool for a monthly cost, it takes the hourly cost and multiplies it by 732 \u2026 and that used to be 744!<\/p>\n

Since I started working with Microsoft Azure, I\u2019ve been using 744 hours as the average month in the Azure universe. That was because that\u2019s what Microsoft used.<\/p>\n

Only this week my colleague saw that Microsoft had switched to using 732 hours. I was puzzled so we checked, confirmed, and opened Excel to do some maths.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s analyse 744 hours first:<\/p>\n

744 (hours per month) * 12 months = 8928 hours per year.<\/p>\n

8928 hours per year \/ 365 days = 24.46 hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmm. Let\u2019s allow for a leap year:<\/p>\n

8928 hours per year \/ 366 days = 24.39 hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK. Let\u2019s forget 744 hours and go with 732.<\/p>\n

732 (hours per month) * 12 months = 8784 hours per year.<\/p>\n

8784 hours per year \/ 365 days = 24.066 hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not quite even. Let\u2019s go with a leap year:<\/p>\n

8784 hours per year \/ 365 days = 24 hours exactly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sooo \u2026.<\/p>\n

732 hours is the average length of a month in a leap year.<\/p>\n

Azure\u2019s monthly pricing is based on the average month in a leap year.<\/p>\n

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Did you know that the average month in Azure is 732 hours long? And that when you ask an Azure pricing tool for a monthly cost, it takes the hourly cost and multiplies it by 732 \u2026 and that used to be 744! Since I started working with Microsoft Azure, I\u2019ve been using 744 hours … Continue reading “There Are 732 Hours In An Azure Month”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[170,231],"class_list":["post-20811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","tag-azure","tag-pricing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t