Microsoft announced at the professional Developer Conference (PDC 09) in May that its cloud computing Operating System Windows azure will be available in May. According to information provided by Microsoft, the testing and preparation of Windows azure's paid system will be completed this month. All windows azure platform services will be provided free of charge by users before March 31, January 31, and Microsoft will start charging by consumption starting from March 31, February 1.
Now, the purchase section for various windows azure services on Microsoft's official website has been activated, including introductory special, development accelerator core, and development accelerator extended) and consumption.
The Windows azure platform currently provides the following three products: Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and appfabric. The charging standard is:
Windows azure:
Calculated as USD 0.12/hour
Store = USD 0.15/GB/month
Storage Processing = USD 0.01/10 K
Data Processing = $0.10 in/$0.15 out/GB (Asia: $0.30 in/$0.45 out/GB)
SQL azure:
Web: 1 GB Relational Database Service = USD 9.99/month
Enterprise Edition: 10 Gb Relational Database Service = $99.99/month
Data Transmission = USD 0.10 in/USD 0.15 out/GB (Asia: USD 0.30 in/USD 0.45 out/GB)
Appfabric:
Access Control Processing = USD 1.99/100 K
Service Bus connection:
USD 3.99 per connection
5 connections $9.95
25 connection USD 49.75
100 connection USD 199
500 connection USD 995
Data Processing = $0.10 in/$0.15 out/GB (Asia: $0.30 in/$0.45 out/GB)
Users across Windows azure will receive data support from at least two data centers at the same time. In the United States, azure data centers are located in Chicago, San Antonio, and Texas. In Europe, Microsoft has data centers in Dublin, Ireland and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and data centers in Asia are located in Singapore and Hong Kong.
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