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Get some amount of Windows Azure Services each month at no additional charge

Special offer for MSDN Subscribers:

If you are an existing Visual Studio Professional, Premium or Ultimate with MSDN subscriber, you get free access to Windows Azure each month.

This offer provides a base level of Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Mobile Services, Web Sites, Storage, Content Delivery Network, SQL Database, SQL Reporting, Service Bus, Backup, Media Services Encoding and Caching each month at no charge. Customers can use these Windows Azure subscriptions for commercial use.

Monthly Benefits Table:

Subscription LevelVisual Studio Professional
with MSDN
Visual Studio Premium
with MSDN
Visual Studio Ultimate
with MSDN
Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, Mobile Services, and Web Sites 1 375 small standard-instance hours, 50 memory-intensive-instance hours 5 750 small standard-instance hours, 50 memory-intensive-instance hours 5 1,500 small standard-instance hours, 50 memory-intensive-instance hours 5
SQL Server (Web, Standard, or Enterprise) 5 375 hours 750 hours 1500 hours
CDN Transactions 500,000 1,000,000 2,000,000
CDN Data Transfers 25 GB Zone 1 Out
25 GB Zone 2 Out
30 GB Zone 1 Out
30 GB Zone 2 Out
35 GB Zone 1 Out
35 GB Zone 2 Out
Storage 70 GB Local
70 GB Geo Redundant
80 GB Local
80 GB Geo Redundant
90 GB Local
90 GB Geo Redundant
Storage Transactions 50,000,000 75,000,000 100,000,000
Backup 20 GB 30 GB 40 GB
Media Services Encoding 50 GB
(input & output combined)
75 GB
(input & output combined)
100 GB
(input & output combined)
SQL Database Web Edition 1 Database Unit 2 1 Database Unit 2 5 Database Units 3
SQL Reporting 100 hours 100 hours 100 hours
Service Bus Messages 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000
Service Bus Relay Hours 1,500 3,000 3,000
Caching 128 MB cache 128 MB cache 128 MB cache
Data Transfers (Worldwide) 30 GB Zone 1 Out
30 GB Zone 2 Out
Free In
35 GB Zone 1 Out
35 GB Zone 2 Out
Free In
40 GB Zone 1 Out
40 GB Zone 2 Out
Free In
Annual Savings 4 $3000 $4200 $6500

1 You may use your included small standard-instance hours to run other instance sizes and other Cloud Services including the Web Sites Shared and Reserved instance model and Mobile Services Reserved instance model offerings at their equivalent ratios as explained on their respective pricing details pages. The Web Sites Free instance model offers 10 free Web Sites. The Mobile Services shared instance model offers 10 free Mobile Services. Mobile Services requires a SQL Database. This offer includes a 1DU Web Edition SQL Database (1DU=1GB) to use for any services you deploy to your subscription, including Mobile Services. The small standard-instance hours included in this offer may be used to run either Cloud Services (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4), Windows Virtual Machines (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4), or non-Windows Virtual Machines (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4), at no charge.

2 This offer enables customers to utilize $9.99 of Web Edition database per month at our standard Pay-As-You-Go rates. This equates to one, 1 GB Web Edition database or two, 100 MB Web Edition databases per month.

3 This offer enables customers to utilize $49.95 of Web Edition databases per month at our standard Pay-As-You-Go rates. This equates to five, 1 GB Web Edition databases or a fewer number of larger Web Edition databases each month.

4 Projected annual savings at Pay-As-You-Go rates

5 50 memory-intensive-instance hours and SQL Server (Web, Standard, or Enterprise) are promotional through August 31, 2013.

We require a credit card or debit card for sign-up. For all new subscriptions, there is a $0 Spending Limit on your subscription so you do not accidentally exceed the monthly benefit shown above. If you use more in a month than the above amounts, you will exceed your $0 Spending Limit and your service will be disabled for that month. If you choose to turn off your Spending Limit, any usage each month in excess of the monthly benefit will be charged at the standard Pay-As-You-Go Rates. Read more about the Spending Limit feature.

Supported Countries/Regions

Algeria $ USD Iceland € EUR Peru $USD
Argentina ARS India $ USD Philippines$ USD
Australia $ AUD Indonesia IDR Poland € EUR
Austria € EUR Ireland € EUR Portugal € EUR
Azerbaijan $ USD Israel $ USD Puerto Rico $ USD
Bahrain $ USD Italy € EUR Qatar $ USD
Belarus $ USD Japan ¥ JPY Romania € EUR
Belgium € EUR Jordan $ USD Russia RUB
Brazil $USD Kazakhastan $USD Saudi Arabia SAR
Bulgaria € EUR Kenya $ USD Serbia $ USD
Canada $ CAD Korea KRW Singapore $ USD
Chile $ USD Kuwait $ USD Slovakia € EUR
Columbia $ USD Latvia € EUR Slovenia € EUR
Costa Rica $ USD Liechtenstein CHF South Africa ZAR
Croatia $ USD Lithuania € EUR Spain € EUR
Cyprus € EUR Luxemburg € EUR Sri Lanka $ USD
Czech Republic € EUR Macedonia (FYRO) $ USD Sweden kr SEK
Denmark kr DKK Malaysia $ USD Switzerland Fr CHF
Dominican Rep. $ USD Malta € EUR Taiwan TWD
Ecuador $ USD Mexico $ USD Thailand $ USD
Egypt $ USD Montenegro $ USD Trinidad and Tobago $ USD
El Salvador $ USD Morocco $ USD Tunisia $ USD
Estonia € EUR Netherlands € EUR Turkey TRY
Finland € EUR New Zealand $ NZD United Arab Emerites $ USD
France € EUR Nigeria $ USD Ukraine $ USD
Germany € EUR Norway kr NOK United Kingdom £ GBP
Greece € EUR Oman $ USD United States $ USD
Guatemala $ USD Pakistan $ USD Uraguay $ USD
Hong Kong $ USD Panama $ USD Venezuela $ USD
Hungary € EUR Paraguay $ USD
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