Apache Karaf with OSGi works pretty nice using annotation based dependency injection with the declarative services, removing the need to mess with those hopefully archaic XML blueprints. Too bad it's not as trendy as spring and the developers so many of the tutorials can be a bit dated and hard to find. Karaf also supports many other frameworks and programming models as well and there's even Red Hat supported... Source: about 3 years ago

Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/ for more information on how this disk is priced. Source: about 1 year ago

Google p30 and get this Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/ About 7 usd per month. Source: about 1 year ago

What size are your disks as this determines a few things? Credit based bursting is enabled by default for E30 and smaller but you may have to upgrade to premium to get the performance what you need. Look at, Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/. Source: over 1 year ago

So question for you...... How woudl you "normally" compute how much a disk that is not attached costs? Would it be by size/type, location? Https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/. Source: over 1 year ago

No, default OS disk is 127 GB (for windows machines). You will need just to resize it. Then you need to add another managed disk to VM https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/. You don't need storage account for this. But you can use storage account as a file share replacement or also if you will be using native azure backup there will be another costs associated. Source: over 1 year ago