Friday, January 29, 2010 9:23 PM
Folks, Azure goes out of CTP this 1st of Feb. Remember to make good use of the Azure Introductory Special offers. For the MSDN subscribing crowd its even sweeter.
The benefits are listed below.
MSDN Subscriber Benefits:
| Windows Azure Platform offer | Introductory MSDN Premium offer | Ongoing MSDN Subscription Benefits |
| Windows Azure | Compute hours per month | 750 hours | 250 | 100 | 50 |
| Storage | 10 GB | 7.5 GB | 5 GB | 3 GB |
| Transactions per month | 1,000,000 | 750,000 | 500,000 | 300,000 |
| AppFabric | Service bus messages per month | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | 300,000 |
| SQL Azure | Web Edition (1GB databases) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Data Transfers per month | Europe and North America | 7 GB in / 14 GB out | 5 GB in / 10 GB out | 3 GB in / 6 GB out | 2 GB in / 4 GB out |
| Asia Pacific | 2.5 GB in / 5 GB out | 2 GB in / 4 GB out | 1 GB in / 2 GB out | .5 GB in / 1 GB out |
| Available for sign-up | January 4, 2010* | After completion of your 8 month introductory Windows Azure benefit |
| Duration of benefit | 8 months | While MSDN Subscription remains active |
| Subscription levels receiving benefit** | MSDN Premium & BizSpark | Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN & BizSpark | Visual Studio Premium with MSDN | Visual Studio Professional with MSDN |
| Estimated Retail Value: | $1038 (8 months) | $812/year | $436/year | $223/year |
Do not forget to check the checkbox indicating auto upgrade for the subscriptions. Lest you want to be charged and know what you are doing ;).