I apologize if this is in the correct StackExchange site. I couldn't find a place that seemed perfectly suited for this question. My question is as follows..
Being a Microsoft BizSpark member I have access to free Azure hosting. The hosting provided is 1,500 hours a month of small instances free (this equals out to 2 small instances running 24 hours a day for a full month). The details of the offer go on to state "You can run 2 Small instances full-time or other sizes at their equivalent ratios."
Does this mean I can run one Medium instance for 24 hours a day for a month, for free? If you look at the pricing, a Medium instance is exactly twice as much as a small.
Does anyone have any experience with this that can chime in? Many thanks in advance!
Yes, I know, I use BizSpark subscription and I have advised and follwoing couple of fellow ISV to use it. And yes, you are correct, the BizSpark gives you 1500 small instance hours, which is 1 full month of single Mednium sized instance. This is in terms of compute. But you know that if you run only one instance, you are not covered by the 99.95% SLA! The SLA only takes place when you have 2 or more instances per role!