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AWS Data Transfer Pricing 2026: Egress Fees Compared with Azure, Google Cloud and More

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AWS charges $0.09 per GB [S01] for the first tier of data transfer out to the internet from us-east-1, after a free 100 GB each month [S01].

As of 2026-10-11, 10 TB a month from a US region costs $891.00 on AWS, $861.30 on Azure (Microsoft network route) and $1,034.69 on Google Cloud (Premium Tier to North America) [DERIVED]. Cloudflare R2 and Oracle Cloud charge $0.00 for the same 10 TB, as do Backblaze B2 and Wasabi with 10 TB stored [DERIVED]. These are egress charges only, in USD list prices, and 1 TB here is 1,000 GB.

VMware Alternatives Compared 2026: Licence, List Price, Free Tier and End of Support

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

As of 2026-10-11, this table covers 9 alternatives to VMware VCF and VVF [DERIVED]. They are Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Azure Local, Nutanix AHV, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Platform9 Private Cloud Director, Proxmox VE, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, XCP-ng with Vates and XenServer. The count follows an inclusion rule: a platform needs at least 3 of the 9 table fields filled from its own vendor’s pages.

Broadcom licenses VCF per core as subscription software (Broadcom specific program documentation, June 2026) [S80]. VVF is licensed per core [S01], on subscription [S03]. Both have a minimum of 16 cores per processor [S01]. Broadcom’s estimated end of service date for the VCF 9.x code line is 2031-06-17 (blog dated 2025-07-16) [S05]. Customers with perpetual licences must switch to subscription licences before upgrading to VCF 9 (Broadcom FAQ, 2026-09-03) [S02].

Windows Server Licensing 2026: Standard vs Datacenter Cost, Cores and Calculator

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Windows Server 2025 Standard costs $1,176 and Datacenter costs $6,771 per 16-core pack at Microsoft’s suggested price, retrieved 2026-10-11 [S01]. Standard covers 2 VMs per full licensing of the host, and Datacenter covers unlimited VMs [S01]. On list price Datacenter is cheaper from 11 VMs per host, at every host size tested [DERIVED]. Pay-as-you-go through Azure Arc costs $33.58 per core per month [S01].

The calculator turns hosts, sockets, cores and VMs into the license cost of Standard, Datacenter and pay-as-you-go. All prices are USD list prices and may vary by country [S01].

Methodology

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What this section is

Sysprobs Data publishes original data on IT infrastructure: statistics pages that collect every public survey on a topic and show each figure with its sponsor, sample and question wording; calculators built from vendor list prices; and reference tables that are kept current. The audience is anyone who needs a figure with a source: writers, analysts, vendors and engineers planning a budget.

How figures are produced

Collection. Every figure is retrieved from the organisation that produced it: a vendor pricing page or API, a statistics office, a published report, a public filing or a code repository. News articles that quote a figure are not sources; they are followed to the origin.
Ledger. Each figure is recorded with its URL, publisher, publication date, retrieval date, the verbatim text that carries it and its context. Where the figure comes from a survey, the sponsor, the research firm, the sample size, the fieldwork dates and the question wording are recorded too. A figure that cannot be traced to a primary source is not published.
Cleaning. Raw downloads are kept untouched. A script produces the clean dataset, and every transformation is written down in the page’s methodology section. Derived figures state their formula where they appear, and rounding is stated once per page.
Charts. Every chart is generated from the clean dataset. Units, periods, the vendor and the report year appear on the chart itself.
Review. An adversarial check compares every number on the page against the dataset and the ledger, confirms that every source link resolves, and fails the page on any mismatch. A person at Sysprobs approves publication; nothing is published automatically.
Refresh. Each source has a known release cadence, shown in the meta line of every page. When a source updates, the page is rebuilt, re-checked and republished at the same URL with a changelog entry. A refresh that moves a headline figure by more than 15 percent is held for manual review before it goes live. Figures older than 24 months are marked as dated on the page.

Reading survey figures

Every survey on the hub is shown with who paid for it. A vendor that sells an alternative has an interest in one result; a vendor that resells the incumbent has an interest in the opposite. Figures from different surveys are not combined into a single number, because question wording, time bounds and sample populations differ. The source panel at the foot of each page lists these details for every key used in the text.

Hyper-V Licensing Calculator 2026: Hypervisor Licensing Cost vs VMware, Proxmox, XCP-ng and Azure Local

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hyper-V has no separate price: it is licensed through Windows Server 2025, and the Datacenter edition costs $6,771 per 16-core pack at Microsoft’s suggested MSRP [S02]. Standard costs $1,176 per 16-core pack and covers 2 VMs per full licensing of the host [S02]. Proxmox VE support runs from EUR 120 to EUR 1,100 per CPU socket per year [S01]. The Azure Local host fee is $0.33 per physical core per day [S08], with no core minimum and no maximum [S09].

VMware Migration Statistics 2026: Every Survey Normalised

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

86% [S01] of VMware customers in a survey sponsored by CloudBolt Software are actively reducing their VMware footprint (n=302 [S01], North American IT decision-makers, fielded January 2026). In the same survey, 4% [S01] had completed a full migration away from VMware, according to CloudBolt’s own report. It is the only completion figure traced to a primary source on this page. Broadcom’s infrastructure software segment, which includes VMware, CA and Symantec, reported net revenue of $27,029 million [S15] for the 2025 fiscal year in its Form 10-K. That is up 26% [S15] on the $21,478 million [S16] in its fiscal 2024 Form 10-K. Public surveys of VMware customers since Broadcom closed the acquisition on 2023-11-22 are collected below, each figure shown with its wording, time bound, sample, fielding period and sponsor.