Windows Azure:

• Compute = $0.12 / hour
• Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month
• Storage Transactions = $0.01 / 10K
• Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB

SQL Azure:

• Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database = $9.99
• Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database = $99.99
• Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB

.Net Services:

• Messages = $0.15/100K message operations , including Service Bus messages and Access Control tokens
• Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB

Further details available from:
http://www.microsoft.com/azure/pricing.mspx

After getting the Azure Samples loaded, I tried running one of them (just by hitting F5 in VS) and, as Firefox is my default browser, got a “Port Restricted For Security Reasons” error.

Of course, it worked fine in IE

Here is what to do –

It turns out, that my application was trying to use port 87 on 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1:87)

Load up Firefox. Type about:config in the address bar, and hit enter. You will get something like the following:

Right click, and click New -> String.

Set the preference name to: network.security.ports.banned.override

Next, set the value to: 87 (or whatever port your app is using)

Done!