6-Month Plan (Storage)

Customers may pay by credit card, debit card or invoice. Invoice requires an initial monthly base commitment exceeding $500.00 per month for customers in the United States and $250.00 per month elsewhere. Customers choosing to pay by invoice may have their service activation delayed pending credit verification.

More details on pricing and billing can be found on our Pricing Details page.

You may cancel without penalty during the first 30 days of each subscription term. You are still responsible to pay for the base commitment and any overage for that first month. Cancellations after the first 30 days of a subscription term require full payment of the base commitment for the remaining months of the subscription and any overage incurred.

After your initial six month subscription term, you will have the option to renew your subscription at whatever renewal rate we have at that time. You may change the amount of your base commitment at time of renewal but you must commit to at least one Base Unit in order to renew.

Your subscription will by default be automatically set to renew. You will be notified via e-mail when your term is about to renew. You do have the ability to opt out of auto renew at any time.

This offer is available to customers located in one of the following countries and will be billed in the currency noted:

As a default, we set the following monthly usage quotas described below. These quotas are calculated based on your aggregate usage across all of your subscriptions. These monthly limits are not necessarily enforced, but we reserve the right to enforce them. Because we understand that you may need more than these limits, please contact customer service at any time so that we can understand your needs and adjust these limits appropriately.

Standard Quotas

Windows Azure

• Compute
  • 20 concurrent small compute instances or an equivalent number of other sized compute instances as determined using the Compute Instance quota conversion table. For purposes of this quota, an extra small compute instance is counted the same as a small compute instance.
    
    

    1 compute instance in the following size	Number of equivalent small instances
    Extra Small	1
    Small	1
    Medium	2
    Large	4
    Extra Large	8

• Virtual Network*
  • Windows Azure Connect
    • 20 endpoints
    • 350 GB of total data transfers per month

• Storage
  • 5 concurrent storage accounts

• Content Delivery Network
  • 10 TB of total data transfers per month

• 100 million Access Control transactions per month
• 5 billion Service Bus messages
• 2 million Service Bus relay hours
• 20 GB of Caching per month

SQL Azure

• 150 Web Edition databases
• 15 Business Edition databases

Data Transfers (excluding CDN)

• 10 TB of total data transfers per month

^*These quotas apply to the Community Technology Preview. They will be adjusted for the service's commercial release.

While we do reserve the right to disable a customer's account that has exceeded its usage quotas in a given month, we will provide e-mail notification and make multiple attempts to contact a customer before taking any action. Customers exceeding the above quotas will still be responsible for charges that exceed the quotas.

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.

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 for the Windows Azure extra small compute instances beta and VM role beta will be the same as the Windows Azure Compute SLA above. Service level agreements are not provided for services during a Community Technology Preview (CTP) (for example, Windows Azure Connect).

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.