Posted by: kurtsh | September 5, 2011

RELEASE: Windows Azure Pricing Calculator

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The following online calculator was put on line back in May 2011 to provide estimates of what Windows Azure will cost for customers looking for general budgeting information based on their own inputs.

The following warning is presented to all users:

You should not interpret any output you receive as a part of this process to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft makes no guarantees regarding the accuracy of any information presented in the report. You should not view the results of this report as a substitute for engaging with a third party expert to independently evaluate you or your company’s specific computing needs. The analysis report you will receive is for informational purposes only.  MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THIS PRICING CALCULATOR.

The calculator presents to pricing models:

  1. Introductory special (* click for more info)
  2. Pay-as-you-go model

The calculator requests the following information:

  • Size & number of compute instances
  • Size of relational databases
  • Size of storage and transaction count
  • Size of Content Dlivery network
  • Number of access control-based transactions
  • Number of service bus connections
  • Size of caches

 

Windows Azure Pricing Calculator
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing-calculator/


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