Neil
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AdminCalvin
(Product Planner, Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows Azure)
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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.
It might help to specify that GAE stands for "Google App Engine". Pay as you go, starting at 0 and scaling very smoothly with actual use, will attract the start-ups that end up big.