"As an MSDN subscriber or BizSpark member, your membership provides you 750 hours of Windows Azure compute time per month for 8 consecutive months at no-extra cost! That’s a total of 6000 compute hours! An estimated retail-value of $1,264!" - τorƍue

Note that MSFT's compute hour <> CPU hour. Instead, compute hour = deployed hour. No problem for huge apps that are scaling to many many instances. Not for small apps. Note that you even get charged if you suspend the app (but leave it deployed). - τorƍue