windows azure platform pricing and sl as

Windows® Azure™ Platform

November 17, 2010

Windows Azure Platform Pricing, and SLAs


“Pay as you go and grow”

• Low barrier to entry and flexibility•Optimized for cloud elasticity

CONSUMPTION

“Value for a promise“

•Discounts for commitment•Plans for payment predictability

COMMITMENT

“Coordinated purchasing”

•Unified purchasing through EA• Introduction to volume discounts

VOLUME LICENSING

Windows Azure Platform Purchasing Options


COMPUTE

Starting at $0.12/hour

(Variable instance sizes)

Per service hour STORAGE

Per GB stored and transactions

$0.15 GB/month$0.01/10k

transactions

WEB

EDITIONPer database/month

Starting at $9.99/month

(1 GB or 5 GB DB)

BUSINESS EDITION

Starting at $99.99/month(10-50 GB DB)

Per database/month

Windows Azure Platform Consumption Prices

ACCESS CONTROL

$1.99/100k transactions

Per message operation $3.99/month per

connection

Per connection/month

SERVICE BUS

Windows Azure AppFabric

All prices shown in USD;

international prices are available

Bandwidth

In$0.10/GB

Americas/Europe$0.10/GB Asia/Pacific

Per GB $0.15/GB Americas/Europe

$0.20/GB Asia/Pacific

Per GBOut


Windows Azure Instance Sizes

Unit of Compute Defined

Variable instance sizes to handle workloads of any size

Equivalent compute capacity of a 1.6Ghz processor (on 64-bit platform)

Small

1 x 1.6Ghz (moderate IO)

1.75 GB memory

250 GB storage(instance storage)

Medium

2 x 1.6Ghz (high IO)

3.5 GB memory


Large

4 x 1.6Ghz (high IO)

7.0 GB memory


Small

$0.12

Per service hour

Medium

$0.24

Per service hour

X-Large

$0.96

Per service hour

Large

$0.48

Per service hour

X-Large

8 x 1.6Ghz(high IO)

14 GB memory

2000 GB (instance storage)


Workload Pattern Application BackgroundWindows Azure Platform Solution

Branded marketing website with customer facing front end, hosting viewable media content

Windows Azure Compute Windows Azure StorageContent Delivery Network (CDN)

Application Variables Pricing Calculation Billing Estimate

Instance Size: 2 to 4 (Small)Windows Azure Storage: 10 GBData Transfer In: 7.5 GBData Transfer Out: 30 GB Blob Transactions: 30,001

$0.24 to $0.48 per hr $0.15 per GB$0.10 per GB$0.15 per GB$0.01 per 10,000tx

$259.20$1.50$0.70$4.50$0.03

Total Consumption Monthly Cost of Application: $265.93

TCO Tool Highlights: Derived On-Premises Costs*Cost of Ownership Comparison

Computing Costs: Database and Storage Costs:Bandwidth Costs: IT Admin SupportOther Costs: (Including Facilities &Overhead; Setup & Delivery)Total:

$1,513.50 $3.40$98.25$235.75$1,303.10

$3,154.00

Pricing Example: Marketing WebsiteC

om

pu

te

Time

“Unpredictable Bursting“

Average Usage

$180

$3.2K

Hosted Windows AzurePlatform

Development Accelerator Core

$266

92% saving

s

94% saving

s

*Traditional server purchase costs, divided over 12 month period



Web-based payroll application add-on based in the cloud, with two connected SQL Azure web databases

Windows Azure ComputeWindows Azure AppFabricSQL Azure Storage


Compute Instances: 2 to 4 (Medium)Connections: 2SQL Azure Database: 2GB (2) Data Transfer In: 18 GBData Transfer Out: 36 GB

$0.24 to $0.48 per hr $0.15 per GB$0.10 per GB$0.15 per GB$0.01 per 10,000tx

$259.20$1.50$0.70$4.50$0.03



Computing Costs: Database and Storage Costs:Bandwidth Costs: Other Costs: (Including Facilities &Overhead; Setup & Delivery)Total:

$1,651.23$653.00$105.00$2,045.77

$4,455.00

$475

$4.5K

Hosted

Pricing Example: Payroll Application Add-on

Windows

AzurePlatform

Development

Accelerator Core

$633

85% saving

s

89% saving

s

Com

pu

te

Time

Average Usage

“Predictable Bursting“




Warehouse inventory content data-hub application that provides aggregate and regional specific information on inventory levels to network of warehouse systems

Windows Azure ComputeSQL Azure Database


Windows Azure Compute: 2 (Small)SQL Storage Database Size: 20 GBData Transfer In: 10 GBData Transfer Out: 10 GB

$0.24 per hr$99.99 per 10GB $0.10 per 1GB $0.15 per 1GB

129.60199.98$1.00$1.50



ComputeDatabase/Storage: Bandwidth Costs:Other Costs: (Facilities & Overhead; Setup & Delivery)Total:

$1,513.50$652.80$172.34$724.80

$3,063.44

Pricing Example: Inventory Data-hub

UsageCom

pu

te

Time

Average

Inactivity

Period

“On and Off “

$332

$3.1K

Windows Azure

Platform

Hosted SQL Azure Development Accelerator

$282

89% saving

s

90% saving

s



Growing business connectivity portal, consisting of 50 communication and organizational applications scaling up to 100 applications

Example: Cloud Assessment Connected Business Suite Pricing

Windows Azure ComputeWindows Azure AppFabricWindows Azure Storage

SQL Azure Database

Compute Instances: 2 (Medium) Connections: 5 connectionsSQL Storage: 10 GBBlob Transactions: 500,000 Storage: 0 to 150 GB peakData Transfer In: 25 GB Data Transfer Out: 75 GB

Application BackgroundWindows Azure Platform

Solution

Variables Per Application

Individual InstancesSets of 5

Sets of 250Sets of 1 million

Sets of 100Sets of 100Sets of 100

Commitment Quantities

EA Billing Estimate

Average UsageC

om

pu

te

Time

“Growing Fast“

$13,860.00 $432.83

$3,849.62$2.31 $8.66

$1.13$4.96

Cost of Ownership Comparison

Total Cost for 50 Applications $18,159.51Total Cost for 100 Applications $36,319.02

Windows Azure Platform EA Monthly Costs


Workload Pattern

IT Portfolio Assessment

TCO Tool Derived On-Premises Costs*

Total Cost for 50 Applications $41,432.00 Total Cost for 100 Applications $90,193.00

Hosted EA Pricing

50 Applications

100 Applications

Hosted EA Pricing

60%Savings

56% Savings

41K

18K

90K

36K

Total EA Monthly Cost for 50 Applications: $18,159.51

1002505002.5

million7,5001,2503,750

50 App Totals


Monthly Service Level Agreements

>99.9%

Windows Azure

Compute instance

monitoring

>99.9% >99.9%>99.95%

Windows Azure

Computeconnectivity

>99.9%

• All running instances will

be continuously monitored• If instance is not running, we will detect and initiate corrective action

• Database is connected to the internet gateway • All databases will be continuously monitored

• Your service is connected and reachable via the internet• Internet-facing roles will have external connectivity

• Storage service will be available/ reachable (connectivity)• Your storage requests will be processed successfully

Windows Azure

Storage availability

SQL Azure Database availability

Service Bus and Access

Control availability

• Service bus and access control endpoints will have external connectivity•Message operation requests processed successfully


Offers available to address your development lifecycle

*Current promotions are set to expire on 3/31/2011

Introductory Special*

MSDN Premium*

Development Accelerator (Core)SQL Azure Development AcceleratorDevelopment Accelerator (Extended)

Pricing packages can be created to address your needs

DEPLOYMENTDEVELOP AND TEST

EARLY EXPERIMENTATION


Offers and Programs to Get You Started

Introductory

Special

Development

Accelerators

+ Free off-peak ingress through March31, 2011

Cloud Essentials

MSDN Premium

BizSpark

MicrosoftBizSpark™

((Coming Jan 2011)


PROMOTIONSINTRO

SPECIALMSDN DA CORE SQL AZURE DA DA EXTENDED

Compute 25 hours 750 hours 750 hours 750 hours

Storage 500 MBs 10 GBs 10 GBs 10 GBs

Storage Trans 10K trans 1 M trans 1 M trans 1 M trans

Web DBs 1 GB DB 1 GB DBs (3x)

Business DBs 10 GB DB 10 GB DB

Access Control 100K trans 1M trans 1M trans 1M trans

Service Bus 2 connections 5 connections 5 connections 5 connections

NA/Europe BW0.5 GB in / 0.5 GB out

7 GB in / 14 GB out

7 GB in / 14 GB out

7 GB in / 14 GB out

Asia Pacific BW

0.5 GB in / 0.5 GB out

2.5 GB in / 5 GB out



Price No Base Price No Base Price $59.95 $74.95 $109.95

Savings $23.50/month $158/month 54% off 25% off 52% off

Term N/A 8 months* 6 months* 6 months* 6 months*

DA EXTENDED

750 hours

10 GBs

1 M trans

10 GB DB

1M trans

5 connections

7 GB in /14 GB out

2.5 GB in /5 GB out

$109.95

52% off

6 months*

SQL AZURE DA

10 GB DB

$74.95

25% off

6 months*

DA CORE

750 hours

10 GBs

1 M trans

1M trans

5 connections

7 GB in /14 GB out

2.5 GB in /5 GB out

$59.95

54% off

6 months*

MSDN

750 hours

10 GBs

1 M trans

1 GB DB (3x)

1M trans

5 connections

7 GB in /14 GB out

2.5 GB in /5 GB out

No Base Price

$158/month

8 months*

INTRO SPECIAL

25 hours

500 MBs

10K trans

1 GB DB

100K trans

2 connections

0.5 GB in /0.5 GB out

0.5 GB in /0.5 GB out

No Base Price

$23.50/month

N/A

Promo offers & Commitment pricing allows for scaling to meet the growing needs of customersVery

scalable

*Can renew once at the same rateCurrent promotions are set to expire on 3/31/2011


23.Luxemburg

24.Malaysia

25. Mexico

26.Netherlands

27.New Zealand

28.Norway

29. Peru

30.Philippines

31.Poland

32.Portugal

1. Austria

2. Australia

3. Belgium

4. Brazil

5. Canada

6. Chile

7. Colombia

8. Costa Rica

9. Cyprus

10.Czech Republic

11.Denmark

33. Puerto Rico

34.Romania

35.Singapore

36.Spain

37. Sweden

38. Switzerland

39.Trinidad and Tobago

40. U.K.

41. United States

Available in 41 countries

International RoadmapWindows Azure Platform availability in worldwide geographies

12.Finland

13.France

14.Germany

15. Greece

16.Hong Kong

17.Hungary

18.Ireland

19.India

20.Italy

21.Israel

22.Japan


1. Canadian Dollar (CAD)/FX Rate 1.11

2. British Pound (GBP)/FX Rate 0.6061

3. Danish Krone (DKK) FX Rate 5.46

5. EURO (EUR)/FX Rate 0.7092

6. Norwegian Kroner (NOK)/FX Rate 6.15

7. Swedish Krona (SEK)/FX Rate 7.5

8. Swiss Franc (CHF)/FX Rate 1.1

9. Japanese Yen (JPY)/FX Rate 98

10. New Zealand Dollar (NZD)/FX Rate 1.563

11. Australian Dollar (AUD)/FX Rate 1.25

Available in 11 currencies

International Roadmap

Billing localized in 18 languages

International prices determined by using USD prices and applying FX rates

Windows Azure Platform availability in worldwide geographies

1. Czech

2. Danish

3. Dutch

4. English

5. Finnish

6. French

7. German

8. Greek

9. Hungarian

10. Italian

11. Japanese

12. Norwegian

13. Polish

14. Portuguese Brazilian

15. Romania

16. Spanish

17. Swedish

18. Traditional Chinese


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