Paul Allen
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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.
Paul Allen
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I was very interested in Azure. I'm currently using 2 VM hosting boxes and thought what better than to use the Microsoft cloud based system.
I then realised that for a VM with 1/4 the processing power of my current VM it would cost me double the price per month.
I'll be sticking to my current hosts unless Microsoft changes the pricing model so you only actually pay for what you use (in web application terms, when the application is doing something). My websites are used generally for about 4 hours per day. If I was only charged when the website was using CPU time then this would be a viable alternative.
For now, Azure is a totally unreasonable prospect for small development companies such as myself. I'll not be using it at all from now on even though there is still 2 and a half months free trial left, there is no point.