In windows azure CTP evaluation, i got invitation to open 19 hosted services. I have utilized about 10 of them to put small cloud sample (non-commercial) application. When the azure goes into production, would i get charged for it? If yes, any idea how?
Yes, you will be charged if you want to continue hosting on Azure.
Check this blog for details.
To quote MS
`If you elect not to upgrade, on February 1, 2010 your CTP accounts will be disabled and any Windows Azure Storage will be made read-only
For the time being, only customers in select markets around the world will be able to upgrade to the full version of Windows Azure. Microsoft is currently accepting customers with the credit card billing address in one of the following countries, with the promise that additional markets will be added in the future: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and United States.
“If you upgrade your CTP accounts during the month of January, 2010, all Windows Azure platform usage incurred during this month will be at no charge. You will also have full visibility during this month to your Windows Azure platform usage. Billing and SLAs for all commercial accounts will begin on February 1st, 2010,” the Windows Azure team member said
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Here's the scoop: if you're an MSDN Premium subscriber, you may upgrade your account with a special plan that gives you a whole bunch of free resources. See link for details.msdn premium info.
I signed up a few weeks ago, and aside from the intimidating form where you must enter your credit card info (in case you exceed the generous compute and storage limits), it's easy to set up, and completely free. I blogged about this as well.
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I have a requirement to move my onprimises azure vms to cloud for only DR.
My current VM has 2012 Server with few applications installed with some critical Roles and the full size of VM is 1TB.
I need your help what are the charges applies and what are the things I should consider for my migration. We just opened a account with Microsoft on Azure nothing is configured and would like to understand the charges that i need to consider for this migration and components that are involved in this task.
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I'm looking at the Azure shared plan for $10 per month. Does it come with SQL Server and MySQL? I'm looking to host my personal site and project. I don't anything fancy. Just need the latest .Net support and if possible unlimited MySQL or SQL Server.
Azure pricing can be very difficult to figure out. So while this may not be a programming question, it sounds a lot like a deployment question that needs community help to answer.
Azure websites don't come with any kind of database support built in, unless you're loading a website image from the gallery.
Generally, any kind of relational storage will cost money. But it just doesn't have to cost a lot of money. Microsoft now has "Basic" SQL Database instances (in preview) that could cost as little as $2.50 per month, with up to 2GB of space. For the time being they still have "Web" tier databases for $10 a month up to 1GB.
Also, nothing in Azure is "unlimited." You always have a nominal charge for storage and data transfers out of the datacenter. So even a "free" website will still cost a buck or two per month for infrastructure charges.
Note that if you have MSDN Premium or Ultimate, you get a $100 to $200 per month Azure credit.
From the link below, it seems like bizspark subscribers can use azure for dev/testing and production use. So the $150 monthly recurring credit is usable for both dev/test and production. I am unclear as to if the 120 hour limit applies to bizspark subscribers. There is a mention of the limit to msdn subscribers.
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If you're with the bizspark program, the benefits page makes no mention of the "no production" or 120 hour detection thing that the regular benefits page does. However, there is still no SLA.
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http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/06/03/windows-azure-announcing-major-improvements-for-dev-test-in-the-cloud.aspx
BizSpark members retain production rights completely. This is detailed in the offer here: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0064p/. It sounds confusing, but the associated BizSpark MSDN account does not have the dev/test restriction.
Key phrase:
In addition, BizSpark members retain production use rights under this Azure benefits offer.
I have a BizSpark startup LLC that I've been using for over 1.5 years just fine on this program including long-running production IaaS VMs.
I have been using BizSpark account for production purposes for our company. We get $150.00 credit per month towards Azure resources consumption. Currently because of some reasons we have enabled spending cap but you can very well remove spending cap and you get charged for whatever you have spent over this $150.00. So if your monthly consumption comes out to be $200.00 for example, you get charged $50.00. As a part of being a BizSpark member you get MSDN subscription as well though I am not sure that you can get 120 hours separately for MSDN subscription than your BizSpark credits.
I just activated my Visual Studio Professional with MSDN and it is telling me now that I have $200 to spend,
my question is:
is this will take $200 from my credit card after the month is over, or this is an offer, and can I use and rely on windows azure using these $200 monthly or this is a limited time offer and will expire after few months? if it is limited so I can't transfer my live websites on azure.
The information provided by #hhaggan is off a bit. If you read this page containing the benefits details for Visual Studio Professional with MSDN, you'll see the following:
For the first month after activation of your benefit, you receive $200
of Windows Azure credits. After the first month, you receive $50 of
Windows Azure credits every month
So it's not a continued $200 monthly.
I couldn't tell if you're intending to use your MSDN Azure benefit for dev/test or production. These Azure credits are for dev/test purposes, and not for production, as documented on the abovementioned web page. Under Use Rights:
Windows Azure MSDN benefit is intended for development and test
purposes. We reserve the right to suspend any instance (VM or cloud
service) that runs continuously for more than 120 hours or if we
determine that the instance is being used for production. Production
workloads must be run on regular subscriptions.
The MSDN Subscriber will have free of charge Windows Azure account that worth 200$ per month. it all depends on your usage, you can use all the resources in one day, one week or even with the best consumption use your resources for the whole month, however if you exceed the limit it will not charge you. the Credit card used here is mainly to provide a guaranteed identity. the offer should be for the whole year of subscription.
I hope this helps you let me know if you need anything else.
how can student use windows azure online services? can we use it for free? at least trial version, because we need to use it for IC project.
Yes you can get a 1-Month Free Trial Subscription. The free trial has enough features you need to use as a student.
Read the details of the available features in Free Trial
Get Free Trial
Cheers!
Please note while registering for free trial you need a valid credit/debit card and a transaction of $1 will be made to verify your card.
Azure Web Sites is FREE up to 10 sites that run in "Shared mode" (limited CPU, memory, bandwidth, storage):
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/scenarios/web-sites/
It is pretty powerful for what you get to get started.
As mentioned above there is a FREE 90-trial. Also if your school has a Microsoft partnership and provides MSDN Subscription access...you do get $3,700 / year of Azure for FREE.