Matt Cooper
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2,422 votesplanned ·
AdminHaris Majeed
(Admin, Microsoft Windows Azure)
responded
We’re working on ways to provide free and low cost onramps for developers, and expect to make more announcements in 2011. Today, there are already multiple ways for developers to get onto Azure cost effectively:
Free Introductory Offer – provides a limited monthly quota of Azure resources at no cost, with standard rates applying above those thresholds: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/
MSDN Premium, Ultimate, and BizSpark Subscription Benefit – provides significantly higher free quotas of Azure resources to MSDN subscribers for several months: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ee461076.aspx
Cloud Essentials for Partners – provides free/low cost access to Azure resources to members of the Microsoft Partner Network. http://www.microsoftcloudpartner.com/
Matt Cooper
gave this 3 votes
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Yup we need to compete with GAE in terms of free small quota, then billable after that. Would increase adoption of the platform I'm sure.
I know maybe MSoft would need to make some changes, ie dynamically load apps on request as Google do but that should all be possible.