http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/11/05/introducing-the-windows-azure-content-delivery-network.aspx

Chris is right, this is complete. Please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff436045(v=MSDN.10).aspx

This is now on the SQL Azure roadmap, though delivery will be post CY12.

Steve Marx just posted a great overview about how to use Windows Azure Blobs and the Windows Azure CDN to deliver adaptive streaming video content in a format compatible with Silverlight’s
Smooth Streaming player.

http://blog.smarx.com/posts/smooth-streaming-with-windows-azure-blobs-and-cdn

For those of you unfamiliar with Smooth Streaming, he also explains what it is and how it works and points to a great article, “Smooth Streaming Technical Overview” by Alex Zambelli for an even deeper dive.

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/626/smooth-streaming-technical-overview/

You can get all the details in Steve’s blog post. If you want to dive right in and start hosting Smooth Streaming content in Windows Azure Blobs, check out the Adaptive Streaming for Windows Azure Blobs Uploader project on Code Gallery, a command-line tool and reusable library for hosting adaptive streaming videos in Windows Azure Blobs.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/streamingazure

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/

At PDC 2010 Microsoft announced the Extra Small Instance, which will be priced at $0.05 per compute hour in order to make the process of development, testing and trial easier. This will make it affordable for developers interested in running smaller applications on the platform. A beta of this role will be available before the end of 2010.

Please let us know if this addresses your needs for a more cost effective Azure offering.