Merry Christmas folks!
Here’s a lovely SaaSy Christmas present for you all!
In this video Steve Plank from Microsoft shows how MSDN Premium/Ultimate and BizSpark members can get some Azure services for free.
If you’re an MSDN Premium subscriber or BizSpark member, you can have 750 hours of compute a month, 10 GB of storage, 1,000,000 transactions, 5 service bus connections, 1,000,000 access control, 3x 1GB Web Edition Databases on SQL Azure.
Services by Subscription Level (no extra charge) * | Premium, Ultimate & BizSpark | |
Windows Azure | Small compute instance | 750 hours / month |
Storage | 10 GB | |
Transactions | 1,000,000 / month | |
AppFabric | Service Bus Connections | 5 / month |
Access Control Transactions | 1,000,000 / month | |
SQL Azure | Web Edition databases (1GB) | 3 |
Data Transfers | Europe and North America | 7 GB in / month 14 GB out / month |
Asia Pacific | 2.5 GB in / month 5 GB out / month |
So now we have no excuses, right?