Microsoft Windows Azure: price and release details

Full pricing and release details have emerged for Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Azure and .NET services. The pricing is all bases on a pay-as-you-go type system and also some services will be charged depending on bandwidth use.

Windows Azure will price their service a few different ways Compute will be priced at $0.12 / hour, Storage will be priced at $0.15 /GB stored and Storage Transactions at $0.01 / 10 K.

SQL Azure will be priced the following prices, Web Edition up to 1GB relational database at $9.99, Business Edition Up to 10GB relational database at $99.99.

.NET Services will be priced at $0.15 per 100K message operations; this includes Service Bus messages and Access Control Tokens.

Microsoft also stated that their partners will have access to promotional offers and discounts, and also mentioned other ways in which customers can save money, for full details check out ArsTechnica.

With the new pricing scheme it should help out struggling business as they will only be charged for the services they use, however large business using the services may end up with huge costs.