Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Fri Mar 16 14:14:27 CDT 2012
Hi All -- They (MS) seems to be now providing Windows Azure free trial (http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0018p), was that available before? Anyway I have a prospect customer who wanted to have their DB "on a cloud". That DB is not big in size - less than 1GB, and it should have <= 10,000 (ten thousands) updates (inserts/updates/deletes) per month, and 30-50 millions reads. By update and read I mean one DB record CRUD or retrieve operation from several DB tables. This is a look-up DB with two large tables having about half million rows and one much smaller table. There could be other tables added later. I wonder how to calculate what would be the monthly costs of keeping such a DB with such operations as described above "on a Windows Azure cloud"? Yes, I can read Windows Azure docs and I can try to use their calculators to calculate my customer monthly spending on keeping their look-up db on Windows Azure cloud but if anybody of you here have already got experience in calculating such spending I'd like to get "ballpark quote" ASAP, and if that figure will be affordable then I'd start three months free Windows Azure trial... I suppose my sample/probable real life project case Windows Azure MS SQL DB hosting costs calculations would be interesting to many developers from this list ? TIA, -- Shamil