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 Level | Visual 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 |