J. van Dorsten
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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.
J. van Dorsten
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Small applications should be charged by CPU time instead of uptime, starting up is still more expensive than other hosting options. You need 2 instances to assure the 99.5% uptime wich is about $72 a month.