Costs Associated with SRE

The university is committed to providing its researchers with a secure and powerful environment to conduct research. To show our commitment, UMB will be offering the use of the Standard SRE to you free of charge. Researchers can leverage the power and flexibility of the cloud, while maintaining data compliance, completely free. Whether used daily, weekly or monthly, the price will be ZERO.

Should your research project not fit the Standard SRE, a custom research environment can be crafted to fit your needs. Due to the nature of the cloud, any custom-compute scenario will utilize a consumption based, or pay-as-you-go, pr icing model.

The following are estimates for custom-compute and storage costs associated with an Azure cloud device emulating a "standard" workstation. Actual pricing is dependent on the tier and usage of the cloud resource(s).

Custom Compute: 4vCPUs, 16GB RAM - Usage Est. Yearly Cost Per User
100 usage hrs./ month $100/year or approx. $0.08/hr.
200 usage hrs./ month $200/year or approx. $0.08/hr.
400 usage hrs./ month $400/year or approx. $0.08/hr.
24/7 usage per month $600/year or approx. $0.07/hr.

 

Data Storage Cost per Gigabyte
Standard Datasets (standard storage) $0.26
Large Complex Datasets (premium storage) $1.85

 

Example Custom Compute Scenarios Total Cost per Year
100 hrs./mo. + 50 gigabytes of standard data storage: $113/ yr.
100 hrs./mo. + 500 gigabytes of standard data storage: $230/ yr.
200 hrs./mo. + 500 gigabytes of standard data storage: $330/ yr.
400 hrs./mo. + 1000 gigabytes of standard data storage: $660/ yr.
24/7 + 2000 gigabytes of standard data storage: $1,120/ yr.

 

Please note, software is NOT included in the pricing.  The university is covering the cost of compute. The faculty researcher and/or the research sponsor would need to acquire software licenses needed for the project.