Want to see inside the Cloud?

With all the talk about Cloud Computing, Windows Azure and the lot, its always one of us who is curious about what exactly do these cloud containers look like. For those of you who were lucky enough to be at PDC 2009 this year, you would have had a chance to get up close and personal with the Azure container that was on display there.

Scott Hanselman took a camera and interviewed Patrick Yantz who gave a really good lowdown of the technology used in this system.

You can view the video here.

 

Now that Azure is starting to go live, the pricing details have been released as well. You can get an overview of the pricing from here

Quickly the numbers for

 

 

• Compute = $0.12 / hour
• Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month
• Storage transactions = $0.01 / 10K
• Data transfers = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB - ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia)

 

 

• Web Edition:  Up to 1 GB relational database = $9.99 / month
• Business Edition:  Up to 10 GB relational database = $99.99 / month
• Data transfers = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB - ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia)

 

 

• Messages = $0.15/100K message operations, including Service Bus messages, Access Control transactions and service management operations
• Data transfers = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB - ($0.30 in / $0.45 out / GB in Asia)