In case you didn't know already, Amazon is offering a free cloud hosted Linux VM for one year, when you sign up for their Cloud services. It's called a Micro Instance and comes with a load of freebies including:
First you need to create a AWS (Amazon Web Services) account. This blog has a nice write-up on how to get started.
Microsoft on the other hand is offering Windows Azure Platform on Trial through June 2011. It also includes 3 months of SQLAzure.
- 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month
* - 750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing*
- 10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, plus 1 million I/Os, 1 GB of snapshot storage, 10,000 snapshot Get Requests and 1,000 snapshot Put Requests
* - 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests
* - 30 GB per of internet data transfer (15 GB of data transfer “in” and 15 GB of data transfer “out” across all services except Amazon CloudFront)
* - 25 Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage
** - 100,000 Requests of Amazon Simple Queue Service
** - 100,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service
** - 10 Amazon Cloudwatch alarms
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First you need to create a AWS (Amazon Web Services) account. This blog has a nice write-up on how to get started.
Microsoft on the other hand is offering Windows Azure Platform on Trial through June 2011. It also includes 3 months of SQLAzure.
- Compute:
- 750 hours of an Extra Small Compute Instance
- 25 hours of a Small Compute Instance
- Storage:
- 500MB
- 10k Storage transactions
- Data Transfers:
- 500MB in / 500MB out
- Relational Database:
- 1G Web Edition SQLAzure database (for 90 days only)
- Access Control transactions:
- 100k
- Service Bus connections:
- 2
