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Microsoft Azure Pricing - what makes outbound traffic?

According to the Azure pricing site:

All incoming data sent to Windows Azure is free. Outgoing data is paid based on the total amount of data moving from Windows Azure data centers via the Internet in this billing cycle. Data transfer between Windows Azure services located in the same data center is not subject to any charge. The first 5 GB of outgoing data transfers per month of payment are also free.

So, I have the following questions:

  • If I use Azure to host a website with a 100 MB SQL Azure database, if no one ever attacks my site (and therefore there is no outgoing traffic), my only cost is $ 5 / month. for a database of 100 MB?

  • When my MVC 4 application retrieves data from an Azure SQL database and the DB returns data, does this consider "outgoing data"? Or is it only the outgoing data that is sent from my site to any client that accesses the website?

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  • You will be charged for the database and any calculation time (for example, cloud services or one of the unsecured Windows Azure websites.
  • No - the outgoing data will be the data included in the web response (and not the data transferred between the application and the database). Just make sure that the application and the database are in the same data center.
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