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Microsoft has announced the initial pricing for Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services. If your application is racking up Compute time when ever it is live, then that equals a total of approximately 720 hours of compute time for a total of $86.40 per month. If you store less than 1GB of files, that's $0.15 per month.
Azure charges 10 cents for the bandwidth to upload and 15 cents to download a gigabyte of data. The disparity in pricing, I believe, is meant to encourage Microsoft developers to move lots of applications and associated data into Azure and then have lots of users access the applications from the same platform.