Windows Azure Service Bus to start charging June 1st

On June 1st Microsoft will begin charging for the Service Bus feature in Windows Azure:

$ 0.10 per 100 relay hours
$ 0.01 per 10,000 messages

They have been showing usage on the bills since early in May, but will start charging as of June 1st. You can take a look at your bills and see what your usage as been to estimate cost. Note that any outbound traffic produced by this feature will also be charged the standard egress bandwidth charges for Windows Azure (so, if you have an on-premise service reading from a queue, or hosting a Service Bus Relay endpoint, you’ll see some bandwidth charges in this as well).

If you have a Windows Azure account already you probably got a friendly reminder email about this. If you don’t have an account why not try it out? You can do so for free for 90 days.  Just get the SDK, sign up for the FREE trial and get started; however, if you have an MSDN account you can also get free Azure Benefits.

Don’t forget, on June 7th the MEET Windows Azure event will be taking place live and streaming to talk about new features coming to the platform. Don’t miss it!