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Got a great idea for a Windows Azure project?  Compete in the Imagine Cup and you can get access to Windows Azure for 9 months and could win a trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, and up to $10,000 in the 2013 Windows Azure Challenge! Get all the details and get started at http://www.ImagineCup.com/.

Not ready to  take the Imagine Cup challenge?  As a student you can take advantage of the free Windows Azure trial offer and run a Small Windows Azure instance with a 1GB SQL Azure database for 3 months*. 

Here is what you get (monthly allocations):

  • Compute: 750 hours of a Small Compute Instance
  • Web sites: 10 Shared Web Sites
  • Mobile Services: 10 Shared Mobile Services
  • Storage: 35GB with 50,000,000 Storage transactions
  • Data Transfers: 20GB out / Unlimited inbound data transfer
  • Relational Database: 1GB Web Edition SQL Azure database
  • Access Control: 100,000 transactions

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