Some Microsoft Cloud Pricing

June 1, 2010

Search in the cloud has been available from Blossom.com for years. Other search and content processing vendors will or have already followed this trajectory. Amazon’s cloud service offers a broad range of services and what strikes me as quite aggressive price points—if you can locate them. Some of Amazon’s prices for EC2 are clearly stated. Others, like AWS, are more difficult to pin down.

A mystery to me was Microsoft’s pricing for its cloud services. Some information may appear in “Windows Azure Content Delivery Network Pricing Details.” Here’s the key passage:

“We’re announcing pricing for the Windows Azure CDN for all billing periods that begin after June 30, 2010. The following three billing meters and rates will apply for the CDN: $0.15 per GB for data transfers from European and North American locations. $0.20 per GB for data transfers from other locations. $0.01 per 10,000 transactions,” a member of the Windows Azure team revealed.

I am not sure how these prices compare to other vendors’. For example, what’s a “transaction”? And what is a “location”? Updates as we find information. The March 2010 information here may provide some context.

Stephen E Arnold, June 1, 2010

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Cloud computing, Financial, Microsoft, News

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.