As a default, we set the following monthly usage quotas. These quotas are calculated on an item by item basis with usage aggregated across all of your subscriptions. Because we understand that you may need more than these limits, please contact customer service at any time so that we can understand your needs and adjust these limits appropriately.
Windows Azure
- Compute
- 20 concurrent small compute instances or an equivalent number of other sized compute instances as determined using the Compute Instance quota conversion table. For purposes of this quota, an extra small compute instance is counted the same as a small compute instance.
1 compute instance in the following size | Number of equivalent small instances |
Extra Small |
1 |
Small |
1 |
Medium |
2 |
Large |
4 |
Extra Large |
8 |
- Virtual Network*
- Windows Azure Connect
- 20 endpoints
- 350 GB of total data transfers per month
- Storage
- 5 concurrent storage accounts
- Content Delivery Network
- 10 TB of total data transfers per month
- 100 million Access Control transactions per month
- 5 billion Service Bus messages
- 2 million Service Bus relay hours
- 20 GB of Caching per month
SQL Azure
- 150 Web Edition databases
- 15 Business Edition databases
Data Transfers (excluding CDN)
- 10 TB of total data transfers per month
*These quotas apply to the Community Technology Preview. They will be adjusted for the service's commercial release.
While we do reserve the right to disable a customer's account that has exceeded its usage quotas in a given month, we will provide e-mail notification and make multiple attempts to contact a customer before taking any action. Customers exceeding the above quotas will still be responsible for charges that exceed the quotas.
There are additional situations that may require us to disable a customer's account, including non-payment of fees. For further details, please refer to our Online Services Use Rights for the Windows Azure platform that is published on our legal page.