Buy Activate Pay-As-You-Go
No commitment. Pay for what you use each month.
This offer is billed at the standard Pay-As-You-Go rates.
You will be notified at least 30 days in advance of any changes to the Pay-As-You-Go rates. New services may be added periodically to the Windows Azure platform. We will notify you in advance of these new services and any fees that might be charged for using them. However, you would only be charged if you elect to use the new services.
Any taxes which may result from receiving services at no charge are the sole responsibility of the recipient.
Payment Options
Credit or debit cards only, unless previously approved for invoice.
More details on pricing and billing can be found on our Pricing page.
Cancellation Policy
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Payment is required for any outstanding fees incurred.
Offer Availability
This offer is available to customers located in one of the following countries and will be billed in the currency noted:
| Algeria $ USD | Argentina ARS | Australia $ AUD |
| Austria € EUR | Azerbaijan $ USD | Bahrain $ USD |
| Belarus $ USD | Belgium € EUR | Brazil $ USD |
| Bulgaria € EUR | Canada $ CAD | Chile $ USD |
| Colombia $ USD | Costa Rica $ USD | Croatia $ USD |
| Cyprus € EUR | Czech Republic € EUR | Denmark kr DKK |
| Dominican Rep. $ USD | Ecuador $ USD | Egypt $ USD |
| El Salvador $ USD | Estonia € EUR | Finland € EUR |
| France € EUR | Germany € EUR | Greece € EUR |
| Guatemala $ USD | Hong Kong $ USD | Hungary € EUR |
| Iceland € EUR | India $ USD | Indonesia IDR |
| Ireland € EUR | Israel $ USD | Italy € EUR |
| Japan ¥ JPY | Jordan $ USD | Kazakhstan $ USD |
| Kenya $ USD | Korea KRW | Kuwait $ USD |
| Latvia € EUR | Liechtenstein CHF | Lithuania € EUR |
| Luxemburg € EUR | Macedonia (FYRO) $ USD | Malaysia $ USD |
| Malta € EUR | Mexico $ USD | Montenegro $ USD |
| Morocco $ USD | Netherlands € EUR | New Zealand $ NZD |
| Nigeria $ USD | Norway kr NOK | Oman $ USD |
| Pakistan $ USD | Panama $ USD | Paraguay $ USD |
| Peru $USD | Philippines $ USD | Poland € EUR |
| Portugal € EUR | Puerto Rico $ USD | Qatar $ USD |
| Romania € EUR | Russia RUB | Saudi Arabia SAR |
| Serbia $ USD | Singapore $ USD | Slovakia € EUR |
| Slovenia € EUR | South Africa ZAR | Spain € EUR |
| Sri Lanka $ USD | Sweden kr SEK | Switzerland Fr CHF |
| Taiwan TWD | Thailand $ USD | Trinidad and Tobago $ USD |
| Tunisia $ USD | Turkey TRY | United Arab Emirates $ USD |
| Ukraine $ USD | United Kingdom £ GBP | United States $ USD |
| Uruguay $ USD | Venezuela $ USD | - |
Usage Quotas
The following monthly usage quotas are applied. If you need more than these limits, please contact customer service at any time so that we can understand your needs and adjust these limits appropriately.
Cloud Services and Virtual Machines
The standard quota is 20 concurrent Standard Small (A1) compute instances or an equivalent number of other types or sizes of compute instances as determined by using the compute instance quota conversion table below.
| 1 COMPUTE INSTANCE IN THE FOLLOWING | NUMBER OF EQUIVALENT STANDARD SMALL (A1) INSTANCES |
|---|
| Extra Small (A0) | 1 |
| Small (A1) | 1 |
| Medium (A2) | 2 |
| Large (A3) or A6 | 4 |
| Extra Large (A4) or A7 | 8 |
Storage
5 concurrent storage accounts
Active Directory
150,000 objects
An object is an entry in the directory service, represented by its unique distinguished name. An example of an object is a user entry used for authentication purpose.
If you exceed the above quotas for a given month, you will still be responsible for charges that exceed the quotas. We also reserve the right to disable your account in any month that you exceed the quota, but we will make multiple attempts to contact you by e-mail before doing so. There are additional situations that may require us to disable a customer's account, including non-payment of fees. For further details, please refer to our Online Services Use Rights for the Windows Azure platform that is published on our legal page.
Service Level Agreements
We offer a set of robust service level agreements for each of the Windows Azure platform services. More details on each of our SLAs can be found on our SLA page. Service level agreements are not provided for services during preview.
Resource Commitment
All increases in usage levels of service resources (e.g. adding to the number of compute instances running, or increasing the amount of storage in use) are subject to the availability of these service resources. Any quota described in the Usage Quotas section is not a commitment that there will be sufficient resources available for you to reach the quota.
For any subscriptions of this offer that are not incurring charges and are inactive for over 90 days, we reserve the right to remove any compute resources including hosted service(s), virtual machines and websites. Please note that no data would be deleted and customers can redeploy at any time. We will also provide advance notice prior to removing any compute resources.
You can also avoid having your compute resources removed by doing either of the following every 90 days:
- Log into either the current management portal or the new preview portal
- Access your hosted service(s) via our Windows Azure APIs