Cloud with Baseline, about $0 a month
- 4 tagged resource groups: network, security, monitoring, workload
- VNet with 4 subnets and an NSG on each; SSH and RDP from the internet denied
- Key Vault in RBAC mode, soft delete and purge protection on
Digital product · Bicep + PowerShell · USD 79
Azure Startup Stack
A secure, budget-guarded Azure foundation for startups, deployed from Azure Cloud Shell in about 20 minutes. You see a preview before anything is created, and one command removes it all.
The problem
You have a subscription and a product to ship
You don't have two weeks to design a landing zone. Azure Startup Stack gives you the foundation a cloud architect would set up on day one: one Bicep template and five PowerShell scripts you run from Azure Cloud Shell. No laptop set-up, no Terraform state, no consultant.
Cost and governance
- Log Analytics with a daily cap inside the free 5 GB a month
- Monthly budget with email alerts at 50, 80 and 100 % and on forecast
- Azure Policy baseline in audit mode: regions, required tags, no public blob storage
Access and security
- Owner, Contributor and Reader given to three Entra groups, never to individuals
- Defender for Cloud alert contact (free tier; no paid plans switched on)
- Subscription Activity Log sent to your workspace
Safe on a real subscription
Nothing happens until you've seen it
Pre-flight checks
Your role, resource providers, address-space overlap with your other networks, name lengths, and a soft-deleted Key Vault blocking the name. All checked before anything is created.
Preview first
You see every resource that will be created and type the deployment name to approve. Anything else stops.
Drift and security check
Run it any time: it tells you if someone changed your set-up by hand, opened SSH to the internet or made storage public.
One-command removal
Dry run first. It deletes only what it can prove the stack created, and skips any resource group that holds something of yours.
Optional add-ons
14 add-ons, one flag each, all off by default
Azure list prices per month (Central India, October 2026). Every add-on was deployed, audited and removed on a real subscription before release.
| Add-on | About / month |
|---|---|
| Private storage (private endpoint, no public access, no shared keys) | $7.80 |
| Container Apps environment | $0 until you run apps |
| PostgreSQL Flexible Server, private, Entra ID sign-in only | $17.50 |
| Container Registry Basic, no admin user | $5 |
| Application Insights | ~$0 |
| Key Vault private endpoint | $7.80 |
| Service Health and Resource Health alerts | Free |
| Recovery Services vault with a VM backup policy | $0 until used |
| NAT gateway (one fixed outbound IP) | $37 + data |
| Azure OpenAI, keyless, behind a private endpoint | $7.80 + tokens |
| Azure AI Search Basic with private endpoint | $82 |
| Azure Bastion Basic | $143 |
| Azure Firewall Basic | $295 + data |
| Application Gateway WAF_v2 | $372 + capacity units |
| Front Door Standard + WAF rate limit | $41 + traffic |
The four edge add-ons bill by the hour from the moment they exist. Turn them on when you need them; the removal script takes each one out on its own.
What's in the download
- Bicep template and 25 modules, starter parameter file
- 5 scripts: preflight, deploy, audit, remove, management groups
- README with Quick Start, parameter and cost reference, troubleshooting guide, architecture diagram
- 10-minute how-to video with English captions and chapters
- Claude plugin: say "set up Azure for my startup" and Claude asks four questions, writes the parameter file, shows you the preview and deploys after your yes
Before you buy
- You need an Azure subscription where you are Owner
- Runs from Azure Cloud Shell (free, in your browser), or from your own Windows, Mac or Linux computer with PowerShell 7, Azure CLI and Bicep
- Bicep and PowerShell only; no Terraform version yet
- A foundation plus a fixed set of add-ons, not a tool that deploys any Azure resource
- Edge add-ons need an address space of /21 or larger
- A budget sends alerts; Azure budgets never stop spending
- All sales are final; no refunds
Azure Startup Stack · USD 79
One-time purchase, instant download through Gumroad. Questions before you buy? Email cloudwithvikas@gmail.com.