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Free Inbound Traffic for all Windows Azure Customers starting July 1st, 2011

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Most Excellent news! Starting July 1st 2011, Azure inbound traffic to our customers is Free!

Quoting the Windows Azure Blog Post: “…For billing periods that begin on or after July 1, 2011, all inbound data transfers for both peak and off-peak times will be free.”

Link: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/06/22/announcing-free-ingress-for-all-windows-azure-customers-starting-july-1st-2011.aspx

For detailed information on the pricing go to: https://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/offers/popup/popup.aspx?lang=en&locale=en-us&offer=MS-AZR-0003P  (look at the Data Transfer section at the bottom of the page).

Enjoy!

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  • Anonymous
    July 04, 2011
    Since SQL Azure is a subset of Windows Azure Platform, do we assume that using bcp, SSMAs, SSIS to migrate on-premise database to the cloud is ALSO FREE?

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2011
    Michael, Yes, you are correct. For more clarity you could check the Azure Consumption Pricing: www.microsoft.com/.../popup.aspx