I’m happy to announce that you can now login to and purchase Windows Azure using “organizational accounts”. Up until today, users have only been able to login using their Microsoft account (formerly Windows Live ID) For corporations, organizational accounts have several key benefits: Employees do not have to sign in with ‘personal’ accounts e.g. with [...]
The Azure Billing team is proud to announce another set of great features, fresh on the heels of our big June 7 launch: 1. As of today, you can purchase Azure in several new countries: Russia, Uruguay, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Ukraine. 2. We have localized our Account Portal in Turkish and Polish: Hoş Geldiniz [...]
The Azure billing team is proud to announce awesome new features. We have some incredibly cool stuff coming down the line, so think of this as a teaser! 1. Signup for Preview Features The Azure team is working on tons of new features, and we will be giving users early access to them before they [...]
The Azure Billing team rolled out a new feature on 4/20 which shows a spending limit notification for MSDN customers. These spending limits are enabled by default on customers who activated their MSDN benefit on Windows Azure after 12/10. Spending limits were not available on MSDN subscriptions before this date Unfortunately, the “spending limit notification [...]
accounts.windowsazure.com now redirects to account.windowsazure.com, instead of giving a DNS error like it used to. Sometimes it’s the little things that count
Several Windows Azure users have been complaining about two errors that show up when they click on a bill in account.windowsazure.com: 1 – Resource not available 2 – The requested PDF document is not yet generated The Windows Azure billing system does not generate a bill if you do not have any charges in a [...]
I work on Windows Azure billing at Microsoft. I guess you can blame me for what shows up on your bill (really, go for it: baslam at microsoft dot com, I’d love to hear from you). I want to use this blog post to briefly explain how Windows Azure billing works, and hopefully take some [...]