BSavoie (1/3/2011)And to Steve's point, my company was wondering why we are getting $1000.00 bills for Azure. Very simple all our developers/testers are using the cloud db as if it was local... jeez. $1000.00 per month buys some pretty nice REAL SQL Server space somewhere!
When you change the way you host and deploy applications, you need to change the way that you develop them. There are a number of tools that your developers can use to mimic an Azure environment on their local machines instead of burning through company money in production. There are going to be some growing pains, it stinks that yours ended up costing money.
Jeremiah Peschka
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Managing Director - Brent Ozar PLF, LLC