Microsoft this morning released the first detailed pricing information about its upcoming Windows Azure cloud-computing system, laying out its standard prices for startups, developers and others to use computing, storage and bandwidth in its data centers. The figures will be closely scrutinized and compared to similar offerings from Amazon.com and others. Via Microsoft, here's the rundown.
Windows Azure
Computing: $0.12 per hour
Storage: $0.15 per gigabyte stored
Storage transaction: $0.10 per 10K
Bandwidth: $0.10 in/$0.15 out per gigabyte
SQL Azure
Web Edition Database, incl. up to 1 GB relational database: $9.99
Business Edition Database, incl. up to 10 GB relational database: $99.99
Bandwidth (both): $0.10 in/$0.15 out per gigabyte
.NET Services
Messages: $0.15 per 100K message operations, including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens
Bandwidth: $0.10 in/$0.15 out per gigabyte
The company is also offering a number of promotions to boost the initial adoption of the service. Microsoft noted that Azure will be commercially available at this year's Professional Developer Conference, which takes place in November.
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