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Answered Is there a charge for streaming data TO Azure

  • Tuesday, February 07, 2012 2:45 PM
     
     
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    As far as I know Azure Service is not charging for incoming data.  Is that mean, getting continuesly streaming data (like quotes) from TCP streaming service into my Azure is not a reason to get charge?

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  • Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:17 PM
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    Inbound bandwidth is not charged. Providing you're not sending anything back (assuming no TCP/IP acks or some such are necessary), you shouldn't see any charges related to streaming of data.

    If you're pulling data, the outbound request and any packet acknowledgements would of course still count as billable bandwidth, but should be fairly minor).

     
  • Tuesday, February 07, 2012 3:22 PM
     
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    YES and NO. If your Azure Instance streams any data from external internet for any data like TCP or HTTP or anything, THE BANDWIDTH CHARGE IS FREE, however you will still be paying for the compute running cost /deployment cost; also, if you store it in any azure storage medium like Azure Blob or SQL Azure, you will pay for storage. Likewise just to formulate that, you any other machine streams any data FROM YOUR AZURE instance, then you will be paying both for bandwidth (per GB) and compute instance running cost(per hour).