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Is there a way to try out Windows Azure?

开发者 https://www.devze.com 2022-12-19 18:24 出处：网络

I\'v开发者_Python百科e looked at the Introductory Special Offer, but you still need to provide a credit card because when you go over your limits, you do have to pay. Man, I\'m just a developer and I

I'v开发者_Python百科e looked at the Introductory Special Offer, but you still need to provide a credit card because when you go over your limits, you do have to pay. Man, I'm just a developer and I would like to try some things out with Azure Cloud. How can you evaluate a product if you can't try it out... Is there a way to get a sort of developer trial?

I totally agree with your point. However if you want to just play around with the SDK for development, you could always use the Development Fabric locally.

Q: How can you evaluate a product if you can't try it out

Welcome to the "cloud"

Use an open-source Platform-as-a-service setup. This way, you can test things on your own machines and migrate to a host if you like it. I dare say, using a freely available language (Python, Java) and running in something (GAE) that resembles a normal API is better. Hadoop might even be an alternative, and use something like Cloudera.

MSDN Premium account holders get a special deal that provides quite a bit for free, and unless you try to launch a commercial site with it, I think you're going to have plenty of headroom:

3 1GB SQL Azure databases
7 GB in, 14 GB out monthly
750 hours (on a "small" compute instance)
1M access control transactions
5 service bus connections
10GB Azure storage + 1M storage transactions

I'd say that's pretty generous.

If you have an MSDN subscription, it comes with 750 hours of Azure.

At least in Germany, you can try Windows Azure for 90 days. If you use Germany as your country, you can still use it. (This account page is in German.)