Jeff Jorczak
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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.
Jeff Jorczak
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1,084 votesJeff Jorczak
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I just got off the phone with Azure Support and they told me to create a new worker role service every day, deploy and run the job, and then delete it all. Do this manually every day! Doesn't this defeat the purpose of having a service? I can run it manually on my dev box every day if I am going to have to be present when it runs.
Jeff Jorczak
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So without this, how it is possible to have a worker role consume a variable amount of time? It seems they will consume every hour since deployment.
Jeff Jorczak
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When will the Extra Small Instance be available? Comment says end of 2010, we are a bit beyond that now.