Question

Your company plans to deploy 40 private endpoints across several virtual networks to reach Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database privately. The finance team asks you to describe how the private endpoints themselves will be billed so they can forecast costs. Which statement accurately describes the Azure Private Link billing model for these private endpoints?

Accepted Answer

Private endpoints are billed per hour that each endpoint is provisioned, plus a charge for inbound and outbound data processed through them.

Answer

Private endpoints are free of charge; only the underlying PaaS service (Storage or SQL) incurs any cost.

Answer

Private endpoints incur a one-time provisioning fee per endpoint but no ongoing hourly or data charges.

Answer

Private endpoints are billed only when accessed from on-premises networks over ExpressRoute; intra-Azure traffic is free.