Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

Joannes Vermorel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:34:06 GMT

Hum, I find it a bit disappointing that MS did not choose to bill the Queue just as extra CPU and storage. 10M operations per $1 is actually a lot for cloud apps that rely intensively on distributed queues to perform async operations. It's too bad that MS did not take the opportunity to be a bit more aggressive against Amazon in this area.

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

diosloco — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:28:12 GMT

So if I just use SQL Azure, is it just a flat $10/month?

Or is it Windows Azure Storage and Transactions and Compute costs plus $10/month?

Thanks!

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

gnordli — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:30:27 GMT

What about databases > 10GB in size?

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

Rob Farley — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:00:37 GMT

Gnordli,

>10GB is a problem that hasn't been solved yet. Phase 2 or later.

Rob

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

muckzz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:48:38 GMT

Guys, you gotta do something about larger DBs.

I'm keen to move in with ~ 10 instances to begin with, but my DB is 12GB and I don't see it as particularly large.

I can probably split it into multiple DBs, reduce the size, etc. but hey, I'm hoping to grow and having no solid timeframe makes the move too risky.

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

craigvn — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:46:39 GMT

Is the $9.99 per 1gb database a monthly charge or a once off?

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

JorisBijnens — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:00:34 GMT

About Azure compute: the compute time is based on the cpu time the combined instances of your application consumed right?

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

Erik Baum — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:17:13 GMT

Hello,

Is their a way to monitor/look at my usage or should i just see this on my monthly bill?

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

Paul Mestemaker — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:11:08 GMT

For more detailed information on the SQL Azure pricing, you can check out this blog from the Data Platform Insider:

http://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2009/07/14/sql-azure-database-is-on-its-way-new-pricing-and-licensing-information-announced-at-wpc.aspx

For those of you who are confused, the $9.99 and $99.99 for SQL are monthly charges.

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

redo — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:34:51 GMT

Hello,

I created a Excel file to help you to calculate yourself your estimated price for hosting your applications on Windows Azure at this link : http://bit.ly/pmntw

I hope it can help you.

My blog is in french but the file is in english :)

Greg

re: Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model

buraksarica — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:12:17 GMT

Am i having an eye disablity or Turkey is not really on the list? Even on second phase?

Come on guys..

Is there anyone that i can ask why?