Richard
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Offer me a Windows Azure dedicated cloud, either hosted on my premises or with third-party provider.
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AdminHaris Majeed
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Earlier this year, we announced the Windows Azure Platform Appliance, which will allow customers to run the Windows Azure environment in their own data centers or via a third-party hosting provider. Look for more announcements about the Platform Appliance in 2011.
Richard
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910 votescompleted ·AdminHaris Majeed
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There are at least three ways to enable e-mail for your Azure applications:
1.Using a custom on-premise Email Forwarder Service.
2. Using Email Server’s Web Services APIs
3.Using a third party SMTP Service
All are described in more depth here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/08/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-1-of-2.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
Please help us understand what scenarios (if any) these patterns don’t address for your applications.
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815 votesRichard
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530 votesRichard
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2,422 votesplanned ·AdminHaris Majeed
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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/
Richard
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AdminCalvin
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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.
Richard
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We need an alternate pricing model. When you build a small website, it needs to be available 24x7x365, but may only get < 100 hits a day. Give us a way of paying for those hits, rather than paying for it to be available. Basically, cost to enter the cloud needs to be more realistic.
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That's still $40.00 a month. For that I can get a virtual server of my own. MSFT needs to offer a way to run a web site for little (< $10 / month, or free.) that way developers can get into Azure for low cost and then if all goes well, the site become popular and you simply scale up the availability. GAE does this very well with their free account.
Richard
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The "Windows Azure Server 2010" idea from Rob below is what I need. My business develops sites for start-ups. We need a way to host on our hardware while they are small, but easily switch to the cloud if and when they need it. Current Azure pricing is prohibitive when we can simply host a traditional ASP.Net site on our own hardware.