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Gain unmatched hybrid security management and threat protection

Microsoft Defender protects all Azure and certain on prem resources through its Free and Standard tiers.

When you upgrade to the Standard tier of Microsoft Defender, we automatically enroll and start protecting all your resources unless you explicitly decide to opt-out. For any resource that is protected by Security Center, you will be charged per the pricing model below.

Currently, you can enable Microsoft Defender at subscription level, through the Azure portal.

The Standard tier is free for the first 30 days. Any usage beyond 30 days will be automatically charged as per the pricing scheme below.

FEATURES FREE TIER Microsoft Defender
Security policy, assessment, and recommendations
Security event collection and search - -
Just in time VM Access - -
Adaptive application controls - -
Advanced threat detection - -
Regulatory Compliance (Preview) - -

Cloud workload protection plans

Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides cloud workload protection to help organizations quickly prevent, detect, and respond to modern threats across multicloud and hybrid environments. Get advanced threat protection capabilities to secure critical workloads across virtual machines (VMs), containers, databases, storage, app services, APIs, and more.
*The following prices are tax-inclusive.

*Monthly pricing estimates are based on 744 hours of usage per month.
Resource Type Resource Price
Servers Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan ￥0.2/Server/hour

Included data - 500 MB/day

Containers Microsoft Defender for Containers ￥0.096/vCore/hour2
Databases Microsoft Defender for SQL on Azure-connected databases ￥0.2/Instance/hour1
Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB3 ￥0.01224 per 100 RU/S/hour
Service Layer Microsoft Defender for DNS ￥7.122/M Queries
Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager ￥40.704/Subscription/month

1 Microsoft Defender for SQL on Azure-connected databases price applies to SQL servers on Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure SQL elastic pools, Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool, SQL on Azure Virtual Machines and SQL on Azure Arc enabled resources (in the customer's datacenter, on the edge or in a multi-cloud environment).

2 Pricing is performed based on vCores in your Kubernetes worker nodes supported by Defender for Containers. This price includes 20 free monthly vulnerability assessments performed in your container registry per charged vCore, whereby the count will be based on the previous month's consumption. Every subsequent scan will be charged at ￥2.952 per image digest. The majority of customers are not expected to incur any additional image scan charges.

3 For Azure Cosmos DB Serverless accounts, the total RU is converted to provisioned throughput using a conversion factor of 0.00003125.

Additional data charges for virtual machines only

Based on observed usage to date, most deployments do not exceed the daily 'included data' limit. However, if additional data is collected that exceeds the daily limit, or if you choose to retain your security data longer than 1 month, then additional charges will apply as follows:

*The following prices are tax-inclusive.

*Monthly pricing estimates are based on 744 hours of usage per month.
OVERAGE METER PRICE
Additional data uploaded over included daily data ￥ 23.4 /GB
Additional retention beyond one month ￥ 1.02 /month/GB

Support & SLA

If you have any questions or need help, please visit Azure Support and select self-help service or any other method to contact us for support.

To learn more about the details of our Service Level Agreement, please visit the Service Level Agreements page.