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Windows Azure Offer Changes

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We announced several Windows Azure offer changes at MIX 11, including:

The extension of the expiration date and increases to the amount of free storage, storage transactions and data transfers in the Windows Azure Introductory Special offer. This promotional offer now includes

  • 750 hours of extra-small instances and 25 hours of small instances of the Windows Azure service,
  • 20GB of storage, 50K of storage transactions, and 40GB of data transfers provided each month at no charge until September 30, 2011.

More information can be found here.

An existing customer who signed up for the original Windows Azure Introductory Special offer will get a free upgrade as of today.

An existing customer who signed up for a different offer (other than the Windows Azure Introductory Special) would need to sign up for the updated Windows Azure Introductory Special Offer separately.

MSDN Ultimate and Premium subscribers will benefit from increased compute, storage and bandwidth benefits for Windows Azure. More information can be found here.

The Cloud Essentials Pack for Microsoft partners now includes

  • 750 hours of extra-small instances and 25 hours of small instances of the Windows Azure service,
  • 20GB of storage and 50GB of data transfers provided each month at no charge.

In addition, the Cloud Essentials Pack also contains other Microsoft cloud services including SQL Azure, Windows Azure AppFabric, Microsoft Office 365, Windows Intune and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. More information can be found here.