Question

A startup is building a proof-of-concept application and wants to minimize Azure Cosmos DB costs during initial development. The team decides to enable the free tier when creating a new Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account. Their expected steady-state workload needs about 800 RU/s of provisioned throughput and 20 GB of storage. Which statement correctly describes what the free tier provides and the impact on this workload?

Accepted Answer

The free tier provides the first 1000 RU/s and 25 GB of storage free per account, so this workload runs entirely without throughput or storage charges.

Answer

The free tier only applies to serverless accounts, so the team must switch to serverless to receive any discount.

Answer

The free tier can be enabled on multiple accounts per Azure subscription, allowing the team to spread the workload across accounts to stay free.

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The free tier waives request charges but still bills for all provisioned storage, so the 20 GB will incur storage costs.