Drag each of those sliders even one notch off the ground and you're looking at $600+/month. Our two fully licensed Windows boxes, taking up half a cage at a datacenter cost less than that, all in.
Coming from a backround of using Amazon's cloud stuff, I'm used to it being relatively cheap, or at least not insane. I can't imagine a real-world use case for a service like Azure if that's what it costs just to get off the ground.
Did you accidentally click the '6 month plans' option? It spits out much larger numbers with the '/mo' label on some of the sliders when it's actually the '/6mo' rate.
Yeah, it seems a little steep but I'm not sure if $600 for a relatively low scale instance is totally accurate either. But it's still steep. For a while now Microsoft has been focusing more heavily than usual on the enterprise market. The weird thing about this is that the design of this page and the pushinf of some of these languages seems to be targeting independant developers and startups whiles still having a pricing structure that feels like it would be for corporate/enterprise types.
It seems like they send mixed messages like this a lot. Like "hey, develop on Windows because you're used to it but in case you're not we can try to pretend we can comfortably accommodate those who don't exclusively develop in the MS ecosystem". I don't know, it feels almost like an attempt to be popular in the high school sense than to actually offer a viable alternative to AWS-type services to non Windows devs.
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
Drag each of those sliders even one notch off the ground and you're looking at $600+/month. Our two fully licensed Windows boxes, taking up half a cage at a datacenter cost less than that, all in.
Coming from a backround of using Amazon's cloud stuff, I'm used to it being relatively cheap, or at least not insane. I can't imagine a real-world use case for a service like Azure if that's what it costs just to get off the ground.