There are a lot of units in Azure to forecast cost for various services. Yeah, even for pay-as-you-go in the cloud, a decent idea of projected cost is required to justify adoption of a new service.

The most recent for me was CU(s) in relation to Azure Fabric Capacity, which was indeed quite baffling. The usual mistake of thinking it must be something similar to other baffling units like DTUs, SUs etc, could cost us. Especially, as a start-up who have been given certain fixed credits by Microsoft for a year.

Thankfully, The Fabric Guy has written an amazingly detailed article on this matter and this should be a must read for anyone even uttering the word “Fabric”.

With that confidence of having understood what CU(s) (not CUs) are, it’s time to hit the road to get a real feel for it.