Microsoft Azure Pricing

[owensdj]

Am I understanding Microsoft's Azure pricing correctly? The Azure site says one can set up an SQL Database in the cloud for about $15/month for a database up to 250GB in size. Is that the total cost, or do you have to pay for the storage space for the DB tables as well? Thanks.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-database/

 

[heymrdj]

Am I understanding Microsoft's Azure pricing correctly? The Azure site says one can set up an SQL Database in the cloud for about $15/month for a database up to 250GB in size. Is that the total cost, or do you have to pay for the storage space for the DB tables as well? Thanks.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-database/

It's been a good 2-3 years since I used it, but back then we only paid extra for BLOBS in the cloud. The storage for the SQL database was included. We were on an academic tier though.

 

[imagoon]

You need to include performance needs. $15 a month can get you a 250GB database but with a limit of 521 transactions / min, 60 worker threads, 600 max sessions. Depending on your needs this can be "good enough" (IE a dev sql database) to insufficient. The response time of the database is also limited.

 

[owensdj]

imagoon, you're right about the performance needs. It's going to be pretty lite use database, but I wanted to nail down the pricing before I considered using it.