Updated: July 13, 2020 (July 20, 2009)

Windows Azure Platform Price Rates

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This chart provides the resource units and price rates that will be charged for production applications deployed on Windows Azure Pplatform services after it becomes commercially available in Nov. 2009.

	Windows Azure	SQL Azure	.NET Services
Compute time (US$ per hour that each process instance runs)	0.12	N/A	N/A
Storage (US$ per GB, billed monthly based on average daily usage)	0.15	N/A	N/A
Storage transactions (US$ per 10,000 create, read, update, and delete operations performed)	0.01	N/A	N/A
Input traffic to the datacenter (US$ per GB)	0.10	0.10	0.10
Output traffic from the datacenter (US$ per GB)	0.15	0.15	0.15
Databases (US$ per month)	N/A	Web Edition: 9.99 with 1GB maximum db size Business Edition: 99.99 with 10GB maximum db size	N/A
Message operations (US$ per 100,000 operations)	N/A	N/A	0.15

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