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On the Azure website, i found the following details for Windows Azure Website (Free instance)
With the Windows Azure Web Sites free instance model, you will receive the following at no charge:
10 free web sites per sub region* on the AzureWebSites.net domain
165 MB of outbound data per day per sub region, up to 5 GB per region**
1 GB of storage per sub region (shared by all web sites)
20 MB of a third-party MySQL database per sub region for the first 12 months
Each Windows Azure offer includes at least 5 GB of outbound data transfers per region per month at no charge. Data transfers utilized for other services besides Web Sites will be applied against the amount included in your offer.
Now, since the 5GB offer that is included inside this offer will expire at the end of june 2013, will there still be the free 165MB per day? This is important to estimate the costs of my project.
Kind regards
Tom
The fundamental point here is, there are several offers / subscription types in Azure like BizSpark, MSDN, Free Trial, etc. Each has different slabs of free out-bandwidth. For example BizSpark come with 40 GB of free out bandwidth and Free Trial might be having 5GB of free out bandwidth.
5 GB limit is for all the services apart from Azure Websites running in free mode like Azure Cloud Services, Azure Storage Blob etc. The Azure Websites, Free mode will be having having the limit of 165 MB per day for that particular website. Check here to find out What happens when exceeding daily download limit 165MB
To make it short, 165 MB limit and the 5 GB limit are different. On a different note, if you exceed the out bandwidth free limit, it works out 12 cents per GB for US & EU data centers and 19 cents for Asian Data Centers.
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I want to know that it is mentioned on the azure free tier page that:
15 GB of bandwidth for outbound data transfer with free unlimited inbound transfer
And at one place it is mentioned that:
5 GB of bandwidth for outbound data transfer with free unlimited inbound transfer
So, I'm completely confused here.
I want to know that if I create a B1S virtual machine and I don't have any credits in my account during free tier, how much outbound data will I get?
Is 15 GB and 5 GB applies to virtual machines also or to specific services only?
I'm unable to identify/figure out that for a B1S VM during my free tier, how much outbound data transfer I'll be able to do.
Also, for a B1S virtual machine, which kind of disk I should select so that I do not get charged?
From here:
This basically means:
in the first 12 months of using your Free tier account, you get 15 GB outbound traffic included. Although I'm not sure if this means "every month of the first 12 months you get 15 GB or if you get 15 GB to use over the course of 12 months - and they could already be fully used after 3 weeks...
In any Azure account, the first 5 GB of outbound data transfer is always included per month.
None of this relates at all to any VM you provision etc. The outbound data quota counts towards all your services in Azure together. As long as you VMs don't send data out over the internet or you download data from those VMs etc., they will not really incur much outbound traffic.
I am confused about Azure Bandwidth outbound data-transfer pricing. The official website says that the First 5 GB/Month is free.
Suppose I have used 5 GB in January, then in February will it get reset and restart counting of 5 GB again? Are first 5 GB free in every month? Are these bandwidths free irrespective of resource i.e Virtual machines, App Services etc?
Yes, the first 5 GB of Outbound Data Transfer is free each month. This means any and all* outbound traffic from your Azure Resources.
So either when you're downloading data from Azure Storage, have a (data intensive) app running in a VM sending out a lot of data or download Azure SQL Database backups every night: you're consuming outbound data.
Please be advised that data going out of the Azure Region is counted as outbound traffic. So data that you copy between Azure Regions is counted as outbound data.
*As you can see in the article you shared:
Bandwidth refers to data moving in and out of Azure data centers other than those explicitly covered by the Content Delivery Network or ExpressRoute pricing.
I already asked my question here in the comments, but I didn't received an answer - maybe because this blog is old & not many read it.
We have a Visual Studio Premium with MSDN - subscription.
Can someone answer?
Edit:
The actual question:
Is limit = fixed billing? I have a limit of 350 cores: Is there a difference in billing if I use 1 core or 350 cores?
Question 2: Why is in the limit overview no WebApp or SQL DB limit? Can I create unlimited amount of it? But then I have to pay for each one I create?
Is limit = fixed billing?
No, limit is not equal to fixed billing. Billing is based on the consumption while the limit defines the quota.
To take your example, you have a limit of 350 cores. What that means is that you can consume up to 350 cores in your subscription. You will be billed for the number of cores you consume (e.g. if you consume 10 cores, you will be billed for 10 cores only).
When it comes to limits, there are soft limits and there are hard limits. Soft limits are the default limits on your subscription when you sign up for an Azure Subscription. You can get the soft limits increased by contacting support. Hard limits are the limits in your Azure Subscription that you can't exceed. For example, currently there's a hard limit of 100 storage accounts per subscription. You can't go beyond those 100 storage accounts. If you need more storage accounts, then you would have to purchase a new subscription.
I did a lot of searching but I guess Windows Azure's trial offers are constantly changing and there is a lot of different information over the internet. I am looking to develop a small website for learning purposes using Azure. My questions are:
1) Are there still 10 free websites after my 30-day trial ends?
If yes,
2) Can I use Table/Blob store after the trial period?
3) Can I use Azure SQL instance after the trial period?
From the horses mouth, so to speak:
Web Sites Pricing Details
You can run up to 10 websites for Free in a shared environment.
Azure Table Storage will cost, but it's not all that much. Storage Pricing Details gives you a run down, but I find their Pricing Calculator to be quite useful.
As an example:
100GB of blob storage
100GB of tables and queues
10 million transactions per month
is a grand total of $9.90 USD per month.
My shared instance website is costing about £20 GBP per month, and this is detailed as 'Compute Hours' in my bill.
According to Scott Gu's blog
"You pay for a shared mode web-site using the standard “pay as you go” model that we support with other features of Windows Azure (meaning no up-front costs, and you pay only for the hours that the feature is enabled). A web-site running in shared mode costs only 1.3 cents/hr during the preview (so on average $9.36/month)."
According to the azure pricing calculator a site on a shared instance should cost $9.36.
According to the Azure pricing details
"Shared Instance Model
The shared instance model provides support for custom domain names, 1
GB of storage, and unlimited outbound data transfer charged on the
terms of your Windows Azure subscription at the standard Pay-As-You-Go
rates. Up to three instances per Web site may be deployed at an
additional cost.
Under the shared instance model, you will receive the following
benefits:
The ability to assign your custom host or domain name Outbound traffic
charged at Pay-As-You-Go rates; unlimited inbound data transfer 1 GB
storage (shared by all sites) 20 MB of a third-party, MySQL database
Each Web site operated under the shared instance model will be charged
at $0.02 / hour (approx. $14.40 / month) per Web Site instance at
general availability. During preview, a 33% discount will be applied
for an effective monthly rate of $9.60 / month, per Web Site instance.
During preview, all paid shared instance hours will be billed using
the current Cloud Services small compute meter, except we will emit
1/9th of the Cloud Services small compute hours to deliver the
discounted pricing of $9.60 / month per Web Site instance. The monthly
calculation per paid shared Web Site instance is as follows: 720 hours
* 1/9 * $0.12 =$9.60."
So what I am misunderstanding? A shared website at the this moment in time (Jan 2013) should cost less than $10 per month.
EDIT MORE INFO
The price I am paying is exactly 3 times £9.60