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Lieven Cardoen
Lieven Cardoen

Reputation: 25959

Is there a way to try out Windows Azure?

I've looked at the Introductory Special Offer, but you still need to provide a credit card because when you go over your limits, you do have to pay. Man, I'm just a developer and I would like to try some things out with Azure Cloud. How can you evaluate a product if you can't try it out... Is there a way to get a sort of developer trial?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 309

Answers (5)

n01d
n01d

Reputation: 11

At least in Germany, you can try Windows Azure for 90 days. If you use Germany as your country, you can still use it. (This account page is in German.)

Upvotes: 1

David Makogon
David Makogon

Reputation: 71030

MSDN Premium account holders get a special deal that provides quite a bit for free, and unless you try to launch a commercial site with it, I think you're going to have plenty of headroom:

  • 3 1GB SQL Azure databases
  • 7 GB in, 14 GB out monthly
  • 750 hours (on a "small" compute instance)
  • 1M access control transactions
  • 5 service bus connections
  • 10GB Azure storage + 1M storage transactions

I'd say that's pretty generous.

Upvotes: 2

ronaldwidha
ronaldwidha

Reputation: 1345

I totally agree with your point. However if you want to just play around with the SDK for development, you could always use the Development Fabric locally.

Upvotes: 2

Jeff Hornby
Jeff Hornby

Reputation: 13640

If you have an MSDN subscription, it comes with 750 hours of Azure.

Upvotes: 1

Aiden Bell
Aiden Bell

Reputation: 28386

Q: How can you evaluate a product if you can't try it out

Welcome to the "cloud"

Use an open-source Platform-as-a-service setup. This way, you can test things on your own machines and migrate to a host if you like it. I dare say, using a freely available language (Python, Java) and running in something (GAE) that resembles a normal API is better. Hadoop might even be an alternative, and use something like Cloudera.

Upvotes: 2

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