Microsoft has disclosed pricing on its Windows Azure services, cloud computing platform as a service. Here is the Microsoft’s prices for Azure services (Windows Azure , SQL Azure and .Net Services).
Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform is a cloud platform (cloud computing platform as a service)
Windows Azure:
* Compute = $0.12 / hour
* Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month
* Storage Transactions = $0.01 / 10K
* Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB
SQL Azure:
* Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database = $9.99
* Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database = $99.99
* Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB
.Net Services:
* Messages = $0.15/100K message operations , including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens
* Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB
How Consumption is Measured
- Compute time, measured in machine hours
- Storage, measured in GB
- Bandwidth requirements (transmissions to and from the Azure datacenter), measured in GB
- Transactions, measured as application requests