Microsoft have announced details of the pricing model for their much anticipated cloud solution - Microsoft Azure. This will become commercially available from the end of 2009. According to Microsoft the pricing model will be based around micro-payments for compute time on a per hourly basis and on storage used (on a monthly basis).
The pricing model is broken down into three parts for use of Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET services as follows:
Windows Azure:
- Compute - Per service hour - $0.12/hour
- Storage - $0.15 GB/month - $0.01/10K transactions
SQL Azure:
- Web Edition - 1GB database - $9.99/month
- Business Edition - 10GB database - $99.99/month
.Net Services:
- Messages - Per message operation - $0.15/100K

There is no mention yet on public services pricing but I will post as soon as I have any news.......more to follow on this I'm sure !!!!.