Windows Azure Service Bus Topics Billing

Question

I need details related to Windows Azure Service Bus Topics Billing. For example.

Am I gonna be charged for what my applicatons publish or for what my applications receive?

For example. Lets say that I have one publisher and 5 topics. On each topics there are 1000 mesages per second, where every message is 1KB in size.
On the other side, I have one subscriber that is subscribed on only one topic and also have applied filter, so it receives only 10 messages per second, instead of 1000.

On the publisher side we have. 5 * 1000 msg/s x 60*60*24*30 * 1KB = 12 960 000 000 messages * 1KB for five topics in one month.

On the subscriber side we have 1 * 10 msg/s x 60*60*24*30 * 1KB = 25 920 000 messages * 1KB.

So, Am I gona be charged for A or B?
A: 12 960 000 000 messages * 1KB
B:     25 920 000 messages * 1KB

Answer 1

Hi,

ServiceBus general pricing is:

• $0.01 per 10,000 messages
• $0.10 per 100 relay hours (this only applies when using the Service Bus Relay capability)

I think this article may help you understand ServiceBus Billing details:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/hh667438.aspx#BKMK_SBv2FAQ2_1

If you have any doubt about Windows Azure Billing of your Azure subscription, please contact our support on:

https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?prid=14234&st=1&wfxredirect=1&sd=gn.

Hope this helps.

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