Infrastructure as a Service for SQL Server (IaaS for SQL Server)

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With “IaaS”, the usage of cloud has further increased productivity. Infrastructure available as a service, offers Virtual machines which are available as templates. So you can pick the size and the version desired and deal only with your application without having to worry about Infrastructure.

SQL Server Virtual images available for SQL 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012 in 3 editions – Web, standard and enterprise. If you have an existing SQL Server license with software assurance, as an additional benefit you can move your existing license to Windows Azure and simply pay for compute and storage.                 

Prices are determined based on

  • Size of the database
    • Web Edition if size of database < 5 GB
    • Business Edition if size of database < 150 GB
    • Least unit for which prices are charged is a GB. Example: If a database is 2.4 GB, charges will be levied for 3 GB

 

  • Computing power required

 

  • Version of License

New Windows Azure Virtual Machine Compute Pricing

Below are the new hourly on-demand rates for Windows Azure Virtual Machines:

 

Computer Instance Name

Virtual Cores

RAM

Web

Standard

Enterprise

Small (A1)

1

1.75 GB

$0.135/hr

(~$100/month)

$0.64/hr

(~$476/month)

$2.19/hr

(~$ 1629/month)

Medium(A2)

2

3.5 GB

$0.225 /hr

(~$167/month)

@0.73/hr

(~$543/month)

$2.28/hr

(~1696/month)

Large (A3)

4

7 GB

$0.405/hr

(~301/month)

 

$0.91/hr

(~677/month)

$2.46/hr

(~1830/month)

Extra Large (A4)

8

14 GB

$0.81/hr

(~$603/month)

$1.82/month

(~$1354/month)

$4.92/hr

(~3660/month)

 

In order to try out the free trial check out the link - https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/

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