Later this year, Microsoft will trim prices on its Azure SQL Standard and Premium plans. “Final pricing will reflect up to 50 percent savings from previously-published pricing,” said Kelly.

Microsoft today announced plans to introduce new SQL Azure pricing options later this month, based on the platform's improved scalability. The scalability improvements of SQL Azure were announced last ...

Microsoft decreased its SQL Azure pricing again, and added a new 100 MB database storage option. The 100 MB storage plan offers a new option for customers getting started on SQL Azure, while the new ...

Microsoft announced last week a new pricing scheme for its SQL Azure cloud database service. Previously, SQL Azure databases were limited to either 1GB (for "Web edition") or 10GB (for "business ...

Microsoft once again made some cuts to its SQL Azure pricing, as well as introduced a 100 MB database storage option, according to a blog post by Steve Martin, general manager for Windows Azure ...

Microsoft has revealed cost and service-level details for its Azure cloud platform for the first time. On Tuesday, the software giant set out pricing options and service-level commitments for ...

For instance, SQL Standard is typically $.64 per hour, and SQL Enterprise is $2.19 per hour. Microsoft is going even further than that, actually giving developers a monthly credit for Azure test/dev ...

Microsoft has cut the price of its SQL database in Azure and lowered the smallest option to 100 MB. The price reductions of between 48 percent to 75 percent are the biggest at the 25 to 50 GB ...

Microsoft decreased its SQL Azure pricing again, and added a new 100 MB database storage option.