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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.
Normally, the per-hour costs for those platforms are higher -- in many cases, much higher. 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 usage. Depending on the level of MSDN subscription, a developer will get between $50 - $150 toward Azure usage.