For Windows Azure 'Compute' (eg. a Web Site) it has two measures: # Running Instances/Hour and Data Transfer In + Out. This, of course, is not an uncommon measure in the industry (either by the hour or by the month etc).
Phil On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk <crai...@gmail.com>wrote: > > However it's worth realizing that when tinkering with these types of > scale > > out cloud technologies you won't need a) huge scale and b) to run the > > service 24/7. For example the cost to run a couple Windows Azure instance > > for a handful of hours might come to only a few dollars. > > Not exactly sure what you mean by (b). I assume if you are running a > pretty standard web site that is accessed at all hours from over the > world, you would have to pay for every hour 24/7. A better model would > be just to pay for CPU hours, that way if you do nothing, you pay > nothing, the more you do the the more you pay. > > Craig. > _______________________________________________ > ozazure mailing list > ozazure@lists.codify.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozazure >
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