Well the wait is over Microsoft have finally announced the Pricing for Windows Azure , thanks Darko for letting me know. Full post here . All in all there are no surprises and the pricing is pretty much on a par with other Cloud Computing providers. Let’s do a quick pricing comparison. Windows Azure Amazon EC2 GoGrid RackspaceCloud Cloud Sites From $100 / month Compute Cycles $0.12 $0.125 $0.19 inc 10,000 / month $0.01 Inbound Bandwidth $0.10 $0.10 FREE inc 500 GB / month $0.25 / GB Outbound Bandwidth $0.10 $0.17 $0.50 inc 500 GB / month $0.25 / GB Storage / GB $0.15 $0.10 $0.15 inc 50 GB / month $0.50 / GB CDN N/A $0.17 / GB N/A ...