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Windows Azure Price And Release Details

Posted July 14, 2009 – 9:37 pm in: Windows Azure

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Microsoft has announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform including service level agreements and support programs.

The Windows Azure blog reports that Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services will be commercially available at the Professional Developer Conference 2009.

Upon commercial availability Microsoft will offer Windows Azure through a consumption-based pricing model, allowing partners and customers to pay only for the services that they consume.

Bandwidth across all three services will be charged at $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB

Windows Azure compute hours are charged only for when your application is deployed so while developing and testing your application you may want to remove the compute instances that are not being used to minimize compute hour billing.

Windows Azure storage is metered in units of average daily amount of data stored (in GB) over a monthly period. Storage is also metered in terms of storage transactions used to add, update, read and delete storage data. These are billed at a rate of $0.01 for 10,000 (10k) transaction requests.

Bandwidth is charged based on the total amount of data going in and out of the Windows Azure platform services via the internet in a given 30-day period.

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