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Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups

You're reading from   Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups A step-by-step guide to create easy solutions to build your business using Windows Azure services with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849685603
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Riccardo Becker Riccardo Becker
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Pricing


This section shows how to use the Microsoft calculator to estimate your costs and how to get the cheapest offer for your needs. Also, the different purchase options and member offers are explained.

Calculator

In the following figure, you can see a fictional usage scenario at a high level. The service utilized three small instances (1 web role instance and 2 worker role instances), a 5-GB SQL Azure database, 1,000 GB of blob storage, and an additional 400 GB of outbound data transfer. At a glance, you can see that the price will be around $468, but you can also immediately see that you would benefit from a 6-month plan, since it would save you around 14 percent.

This is the compact view of the calculator and can be used to give us an indication of the costs. To get a more detailed and fine-grained overview of estimated costs, you can use the Full Pricing Calculator, which enables you to tweak every single concept of Azure that you will be billed for. Also for more complex scenarios,...

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