Azure pricing: How low will Microsoft go?

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Google App Engine is the only similar offering I know of

From what MS have revealed of the Azure pricing
model, anyway. Google App Engine measures
bandwidth, CPU cycles, storage and so on, and
charges accordingly, with a free quota to get
started. For example, you get 10GB per day of
outgoing bandwidth, then charged at $0.12/GB
for the rest of that day.

The main difference is that Google requires you
to create your website in Python (and only
supports Django 0.96), although they have just
introduced beta support for JVM, which supports
JRuby, Groovy, Scala etc). Azure, while
obviously pushing ASP.NET, provides Fast-CGI
support so you can run PHP, Rails or whatever.

I've got an ASP.NET web service running on
standard hosting at the moment, and I'm waiting
to see the Azure pricing model before I decide
whether to go with Microsoft or Google, but if
Azure is priced similarly to App Engine, then
I'll go the Microsoft route. If it costs a lot
more, I'll seriously consider a port to JRuby
on Rails.

Posted by: markrendle   Posted on: 07/09/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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