At PDC 2010 Bob Muglia announced a new “extra small” compute instance, priced at 5 cents/hour. This Extra Small Windows Azure instance seems especially useful for developers to test their application at an affordable cost.
This brings the total number of Windows Azure compute instances flavors to five:
Compute Instance Size | CPU | Memory | Instance Storage | I/O Performance | Cost per hour |
Extra Small | 1.0 GHz | 768 MB | 20 GB | Low | $0.05 |
Small | 1.6 GHz | 1.75 GB | 225 GB | Moderate | $0.12 |
Medium | 2 x 1.6 GHz | 3.5 GB | 490 GB | High | $0.24 |
Large | 4 x 1.6 GHz | 7 GB | 1,000 GB | High | $0.48 |
Extra Large | 8 x 1.6 GHz | 14 GB | 2,040 GB | High | $0.96 |