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Confusion between billing zones and availability zones
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Quote: "Data transfers across availability zones of a region are not free. If your workload is multi-region or there are transfers across billing zones, then expect additional bandwidth cost. For more information, see Traffic across billing zones and regions."
The first sentence seems to indicate that the rest of the paragraph applies to availability zones but the remaining paragraph and the link reference billing zone. These are completely different.
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@kasimrehman Thanks for your feedback. We will review and update as appropriate.
Also, data transfer between availability zones is currently free (contrary to the quoted text) with plans to change this in the future. This should be documented accurately here.
@kasimrehman - Please see the FAQ on what Availability Zone data charges exist today. https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/bandwidth/#faq - which does include ingress and egress between availability zones in the same virtual network. There are billing (charge) boundaries, and availability zones represents one of those boundaries for specific flows.
