Microsoft Reveals Windows Azure Prices

Today at World Wide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft announced Windows Azure prices and made available the service level agreements (SLA) surrounding Azure services. They also announced the release date for Windows Azure.

Windows Azure will be offered for purchase through a consumption-based pricing model and will continue to offer promotional discounts to enterprise customers. Pricing for the computing power of Windows Azure is $0.12 cents an hour and $0.15 cents / GB / Month for storage. SQL Azure will be offered at $9.99 per month (basic) and a $99.99 (business), with a database capacity of up to 10 GB.

Windows Azure is (almost) ready to go. Early adopters of the platform and WPC conference attendees will receive an invitation only CTP soon.

Update: Windows Azure Blog has more details about pricing here.

Windows Azure will continue to be updated every two to three months, expect this pattern after release as well. Also, Windows Azure will have much more features by the end of the year than the CTP. Microsoft also officially announced (as we forecasted before) that Windows Azure will begin to be commercially available at PDC (Professional Developers Conference), in November.

Shortly after taking the product to the market, Microsoft will reveal a certification process for applications running on Windows Azure. At the same time, the new Windows Azure Marketplace will be released, which is geared at helping connect buyers and sellers of services or software designed for Windows Azure.

We will have more updates regarding the SLA’s and pricing soon.

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