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AdminCalvin
(Product Planner, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows Azure)
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This is now on the SQL Azure roadmap, though delivery will be post CY12.
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AdminHaris Majeed
(Admin, Microsoft Windows Azure)
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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/
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AdminHaris Majeed
(Admin, Microsoft Windows Azure)
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At PDC 2010, we announced that the Web role will soon provide full IIS functionality, which enables multiple IIS sites per Web role and the ability to install IIS modules. The full IIS functionality enables developers to get more value out of a Windows Azure instance. Full IIS Support will be generally available to customers later this year.
Please let us know if there are important scenarios that the combination of admin mode + full IIS won’t solve for you.
Vassil_
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I fully support the idea of having web and worker roles running onto 1 computing instance. I am a student and currently I am working on Azure, mostly for educational purpose and I have only 1 instance that I can use. So I have to think of workarounds in order to have some background processes in addition to a web role. In this line of thought small companies would need such an option when choosing a subscription plan.