Microsoft announced the business and partner model for the Windows Azure platform including service level agreements and support programs. Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services will be commercially available at the Professional Developer Conference 2009 and we hope you will continue building on the Community Technology Preview (CTP) at no cost today. Here’s the Azure pricing:

-Windows Azure: Compute @  $0.12 / hour | Storage @ $0.15 / GB stored | Storage Transactions @ $0.01 / 10K
-SQL Azure: Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database @ $9.99 | Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database @ $99.99
-.NET Services: Messages @ $0.15/100K message operations , including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens

Bandwidth across all three services will be charged at $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB