How is Azure Data calculated?

Question

I'm currently on a free trial of Windows Azure. All I did was deploy the standard MVC “My MVC application” launch template for the service.

However, while reading the payment details (zero calculator when I am on the trial account), I see

10/01/2011 Windows Azure platform - data from all Zone 2 services Transfer (GB) 11.414393 Southeast Asia calculation

This is 11GB! The page is all 3Kb, and I'm the only one who knows that it exists, since in fact its use is getting so high. I tried to call MS Support, but they did not offer an explanation, and if I were not in the intro package, I would be billed for this amount.

Does anyone have any ideas on where the 11GB went for the MVC 3Kb template? Note. I do not have the appropriate use from my internet provider bandwidth, so "can not" was me.

UPDATE:

Use has never been explained. Microsoft spoke to itself, but ultimately could not offer an explanation for using the spike. Since then, I have not encountered a similar problem. I do not believe that Microsoft will deliberately tear us up, as this will be a short-term benefit that will ultimately have unpleasant consequences, but from the point of view of the error, they apparently do not have the ability to drill the numbers that they cause for you to either in a meaningful way.

So, I believe that the lesson is that you must implement your own indicators on this service in order to cross-check the numbers for which you will be billed .

Answer 1

Is the content delivery network (CDN) turned on? The mechanism will transfer your data to another service area. But still, 11 GB is extremely large compared to your actual content size.

For more details see: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/faq/

Answer 2

I don’t think you hit the page 4,000 times?

Data transfer is calculated by counting the number of bytes remaining from our data center (from your application, storage account, service bus, caching, etc.). If you do not use anything other than computation (just host this application), it means that 11GB of data was transferred to IIS in your web role.

Answer 3

Have you launched background threads related to web systems outside of Azure? I just saw something on my own Azure website, which made me think that some of the abandoned HttpClient requests that were waiting, worked all night long. (I have to go looking for errors.) Although my browser did not expect requests, it seems that Azure is counting the data intended for delivery. This assumes that the measurement is not performed at the network level, but somewhere in IIS. Data does not necessarily go to the wire, but only to some output buffer.