How do you charge customers for the AppFabric Service Bus and AppFabric Access Control?
The Service Bus costs $3.99 per Connection-month on a consumption (pay-as-you-go) individual basis, plus the associated Windows Azure platform data transfer at a price of $0.10/GB for ingress and $0.15 for egress. Or, if you are able to forecast your needs ahead of time, you can purchase “Packs” of Connections. For example: $9.95 for a pack of 5 Connections, $49.75 for a pack of 25, $199.00 for a pack of 100, or $995 for a pack of 500, plus data transfer charges. Connection Packs represent an effective rate of $1.99 per Connection-month. Access Control will be priced at $1.99 per 100,000 Transactions, which includes token requests and management operations, plus associated data transfer. Typically, Service Bus developers depend on Access Control to secure their Connections.