Best Practice to Minimize you Windows Azure Compute Hours!
Starting 1st of February you will be charges for the use of Windows Azure deployments. In order to minimize you usage and cost you can find best practices to minimize your usage by:
Understand how we charge
Take advantage of the introductory offers
Develop and test locally
Delete applications you no longer need from the cloud
Use the right number of instances of an application
You can find more information here.