Windows azure pricing compute hours

I see that someone is trying to close this Question. I think this is a fair question for stackoverflow, it's on the edge of being a programming question Azure compute is an environment very relevant to programming and doesn't fit nicely anywhere else. Just to give a definitive response I work on the Windows Azure team , Chris Lutz's answer is absolutely correct.

As long as something is posted to the role, whatever it is, even if not "live" and set to "run" it is still using compute, and thus being charged. If it is deployed and not running, it still accrues a charge. If a Role has 2x Instances running, then each of those instances is included as compute. So if a Web Role is up and deployed in the cloud again, running or not with 2x instances set, then that is effectively 2 hours of compute. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What is a Windows Azure Compute Hour? Asked 12 years, 2 months ago. Active 9 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 6k times. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. It probably means per computer, per hour. But this isn't programming related. Actually, I believe it is related to actual CPU time.

I was hoping it'd be closer to zero compute hours I'm hoping BobbyShaftoe is right — mackenir. I cant believe google spidered this question in the few minutes it was on SO, and it's now the top result for "azure compute hour cpu time" : — mackenir. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. I think this should go on superuser. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Yes, it will mean 24 compute hours a day.

It means per instance per hour. Therefore if you have two instances for 24 hours, you'll have 48 compute hours. One instance for 24 hours is 24 compute hours. Improve this answer. Arran Arran WillHuang Correct. Technically it is per core per hour. Girish Girish 5 5 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. You do not get charged for CPU time.

You do get charged for number of instances deployed per day. Same cost. Compute hours are the number of hours you're running a virtual machine instance. Two instances of Medium 2 core? Runs like that while the virtual machines is deployed. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back