I'm a current Azure user so this intrigued me, but I don't see anything on that page about monthly credits. Am I missing something?
Edit: Never mind, I guess? I found it in some fine print on another page. Weird that they don't advertise it more prominently...
Re:Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
by lewisl9029 on Friday May 22, 2015 @09:26PM
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Yes it's pretty ridiculous how well they've hidden one of the best perks of the subscription. I only know about it because I was enrolled in a previous version of the program that advertised the Azure credits a lot more prominently.
Their marketing in general is sorely lacking seeing as how few of the people who would benefit from it actually know about it.
For anyone else wondering, I managed to find it mentioned on this page (deeply hidden under "Microsoft Action Pack – cloud and on-premises Internal Use Rights licenses" accordion, under the "Management" section in the dropdown, under the "Cloud Services" heading):
https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/pages/membership/inter...
"Microsoft Azure
US$100 monthly credit. Microsoft Azure credit is in addition to current on-premises internal-use software licenses."
Re:Ask HN: Which cloud do you use, and why?
by andersthue on Sunday May 24, 2015 @01:38PM
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If you are a silver partner as we are you also get a 100$ plan for azure every month!
Mostly because of this very little known offering called the Microsoft Action Pack subscription: https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/ca/Pages/Membership/actio...
It costs around $500 per year, offers your company access to a large number of Microsoft software licenses, free access to seats of Office 365 Enterprise (for hosted email on your own domain, in addition to the software), and most importantly, $110 in Azure credits per month.
The Azure credits alone make this an amazing deal that essentially cuts all Azure pricing by more than half, making it more than competitive with AWS/GCE/DO on the pricing front.