What's the Minimum Hosting Cost for Windows Azure?

14. July 2009
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Microsoft has announced the initial pricing for Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services. My question is still "What is the Minimum it will cost to host a small website/application on Azure?"

If your application is racking up "Compute" time when ever it is "live", then that equals a total of approximately 720 hours of "compute" time for a total of $86.40 per month.

If you store less than 1GB of files, that's $0.15 per month.

Then if you also use a database with SQL Azure, that's an additional $9.99 per month for up to a 1GB relational database.

Now if the website uses 10GB of bandwidth (that's how much my blog used last month), then that's about $1.50 per month.

If you add all these up, that's a Total of $98.04! And that looks like the very minimum cost of hosting an average "small" app/website on Azure. That surely doesn't make me want to switch my DiscountASP.NET and GoDaddy.com hosting accounts over to Windows Azure.

I can't believe Microsoft isn't making it cheaper to host a small website on Azure, by making the "Compute" time so expensive. Unless of course I'm misunderstanding how "Compute" time is calculated. Does anyone know if I am correct in assuming that 1 full day of hosting your application will rack up 24 hours of total "Compute" time? I hope I'm wrong on this.

Below is a summary of the pricing:

Windows Azure:

    * Compute @ $0.12 / hour
    * Storage @ $0.15 / GB stored
    * Storage Transactions @ $0.01 / 10K

SQL Azure:

    * Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database @ $9.99
    * Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database @ $99.99

Bandwidth across all three services will be charged at $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB

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Comments

Denis
Denis
7/21/2009 7:37:42 PM #
There is no compute time needed for keeping an application "live". For a simple Web application, assuming it does not involve worker tasks, compute time is only needed when a HTTP request is processed.

With few unique visitors that require 1 hour of processing per month you may have to pay no more than $0.12 per month .
Denis
Denis
7/21/2009 7:54:30 PM #
I just read your question at social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../9ed63b5f-09fa-40fd-8adb-462c4057901f

I still don't believe that an idle instance of an application will cost something.

Hahem , I hope so...
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