Azure Cost Calculator / Estimator

Azure Cost Estimator

This is a tool which will monitor an on premise host and recommend what the size of Azure VM, storage and bandwidth cost would be. Very useful for getting an estimate to move a workload into Azure.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43376

Microsoft Azure - Seeding Data

Import Seeding

Due to restrictive bandwidth available, you can seed data into Azure datacenters to initialise the services. £50 a device, which can be consumed via Azure credits via distribution.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage-import-export/

How to: Guide

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-import-export-service/

RemoteApp with Microsoft Azure - Information, Free Demo and Pricing

Rather than creating a new Azure VM, customers can now upload their own LOB applications into RemoteApp and allow users to access this directly.

The advantage of using RemoteApp is that it provides a capped price that also includes RDS CAL usage and bandwidth. It does however require a minimum of 20 users.

Initial testing looks extremely promising.

Azure RemoteApp

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/remoteapp/

Free demo

https://www.remoteapp.windowsazure.com/en/clients.aspx

Pricing

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/remoteapp/