Windows Azure Trial VS 6 Month VS PAY AS YOU GO

Question

 I am currently on the 90 day trial and have reached a limit. I cannot see what the limit I reached is as to if its the bandwidth or hours, where can I see that?

I contacted customer support but the Indian guy was more concerned on cutting things short and won't respond to my questions.

After that is answered, my next question is the pricing. I am confused.

For what is included in the trial, what would be the price per month if it were not to be a trial?

I went through the pricing calculator and see that a VM is over $100 a month not accounting for bandwidth and other things, yet the 6 month deal seems to have what I am currently using ( i think) for only $72/month.

I really just want to know the differences in features in the trial VS the 6 month deal vs the pricing itself.

Answer 1

Hi,

About Azure free trial account limitations, please refer to below links:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0018p

If you want to know what reached the limitation, you can contact our support for more info, forums members can not provide offcial answer about your azure account:

https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=14928&st=1&wfxredirect=1&sd=gn

About billing question, if you use free trial account, please careful about resource limitations, "If you exceed these allocations, a spending limit will apply and your service will be disabled until the beginning of the next billing month".

If you want to use Pay-As-You-Go account, here you can find billing details:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/

I think Windows Azure 6 month deal may more suitable for stable, mature applications and services, and it will help you save more, here is these two deals:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/purchase-options/

For Medium Size Virtual Machine you need pay for $115.20 per month, Small size Virtual Mahine for $57.60 per month. (From Azure Caculator).

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Hi,

About Azure free trial account limitations, please refer to below links:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0018p

If you want to know what reached the limitation, you can contact our support for more info, forums members can not provide offcial answer about your azure account:

https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=14928&st=1&wfxredirect=1&sd=gn

About billing question, if you use free trial account, please careful about resource limitations, "If you exceed these allocations, a spending limit will apply and your service will be disabled until the beginning of the next billing month".

If you want to use Pay-As-You-Go account, here you can find billing details:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/

I think Windows Azure 6 month deal may more suitable for stable, mature applications and services, and it will help you save more, here is these two deals:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/purchase-options/

For Medium Size Virtual Machine you need pay for $115.20 per month, Small size Virtual Mahine for $57.60 per month. (From Azure Caculator).

Hope this helps.

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I did contact support, as I said the Indian guy just ignores my email after the call.

I know where those pages are located, they are what confused me. You are not answering anoything you simply copy and paste without reading what I am saying. Is all support from eastern countries.....

I want to know if the features in the trial (20 cores/10 VM) is the same in the 6 month deal or is it only one? Things such as that, the differences. Those webpages aren't easy on the eyes to me. Either answer my question or do not reply.

Answer 3

Hi,

If Microsoft Support Group do not have any response with your question, you can send extra e-mail to him, i think.

About your another question, i am not sure what's you mean in your post "20 cores/10 VM", Free trial account only allow 1 small instance (only 1 core) with 750 hours and 10 websites application (not Virtual Mahchine), 6 month deal also provide the Base Unit with same compute ability, the different is you can increase the 6 month deal with more Base units. (for example, you can apply for mulitiple 750 hours small instance per month). All the thing you can find in my above post resources. Please check them again, i guess you may get your answer.

BR,

Arwind

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Answer 4

Hi,

If Microsoft Support Group do not have any response with your question, you can send extra e-mail to him, i think.

About your another question, i am not sure what's you mean in your post "20 cores/10 VM", Free trial account only allow 1 small instance (only 1 core) with 750 hours and 10 websites application (not Virtual Mahchine), 6 month deal also provide the Base Unit with same compute ability, the different is you can increase the 6 month deal with more Base units. (for example, you can apply for mulitiple 750 hours small instance per month). All the thing you can find in my above post resources. Please check them again, i guess you may get your answer.

BR,

Arwind

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I was using 10 VM with two cores each before I reached a limit, not sure which limit I reached as support doesn't help. Neither through calls or email. So the 6 month is only one, while the trial offers 20 cores limit, yet you say that is not how it is suppose to be?

I'm guessing it was the bandwidth limit or the compute hours limit but that is just a guess. Why can't I just check what limit I reached? What if I wanted to pay for it? It says I could remove the spending limit but why would I do it if I don't even know for what I am going to be charged?

I now have more questions than answers, support for this is outrageous. I was looking to purchasing but if I have problems it looks like support through phone and email just wants to close tickets not help. Then here it seems information is missed.

Answer 5

Hi,

If you use 10 VM with 2 core (medium) with Free trial, i can ensure the compute hours will over the limitation, Azure free trial account has 750 hours with small instance (1 core), 750/30=25 (hours/day), in other words, you can have 1 VM with 1 core per month, according to this list:

Reserved Instance Size	Clock Hours	Small Instance Hours
Small	1	1 hour
Medium	1	2 hours
Large	1	4 hours

The 1 Medium VM (2 core) = 2 small core VM (1 core), so 10 VM with 2 core means your account will consume 20 compute hours /  real world hour, so i think your account will reach the limitation within 2 days.

BR,

Arwind

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