Azure VPN Gateway pricing
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/vpn-gateway/
I’m planning to focus more on Azure with cloud being more mainstream.
If you require 30 site to site IPsec vpn tunnels, you are looking at like $500/month just for the tunnel itself. You still need to factor in data transfer costs.
Is Azure VPN Gateway IPv4 or IPv6?
If you are looking at just 1 x site to site vpn, it is $0.2593/hr or $186/month without including the data transfer costs. It’s quite pricey. Who’s really benefiting from Azure VPN Gateway? Doesn’t seem like a good fit for small businesses.
Does it make sense to have a company of say 20 users go with Azure VPN Gateway to access Azure Virtual Machines? Or does it make more sense to just have a local router like a Fortigate and setup 1 x local server on premise for eg. sage 300. If it is just 1 x server, seems like on premise makes more sense than going cloud.
I can’t talk azure but we are also a SMB but on aws. The pricing is about the same. we setup a fortigate vm for both site to site and remote access. the aws native site to site vpn is dual endpoint so it’s very high availability but for the cost we just can’t justify it.
We use AWS vpn, which is based on openvpn.
it is configured with split tunnel, directing only the traffic to our private network thru VPN and all the rest of the public traffic to the ISP.
it’s more cost effective (pay only per connection), more stable, less traffic goes thru the vpn (cost less), and more secure (based on TLS/SSL)
What is the approximate cost for the FortiGate vm on AWS and how many users?
What’s the reason for going with AWS instead of Azure?
When we priced out aws and azure in 2018 aws looked something 20% cheaper for us.
There’s two parts to the cost of the fortigate the first is the license the other is the vm. https://www.avfirewalls.com/FortiGate-VM01.asp you could use FC1-10-FGVVS-258-02-12 if you don’t want it to do any scanning/blocking but I would recommend going with the APT bundle. Our ec2 instance, storage, etc costs an extra $100/month but it’s super overpowered for 3 site to sites and 20 ssl vpn users.
My take on this might be overly simplified. However… here it is.
AWS is cheaper as a pure hosting solution.
Where Microsoft pulls you in is with their SAAS stack, and AWS’s lower cost vanishes if you need to communicate between clouds because you’ll pay for all that network traffic.
For a 2 server app server setup (sql + app server), consider the cost of an Azure SAAS hosted SQL server instead of an OS that you manage.