Microsoft adds Basic tier to its Azure Search offering

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Published onMarch 4, 2016

published onMarch 4, 2016

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Besides making money through ads with its public search engine, Bing, Microsoft also sells search capabilities – powered by Azure – as a service to web and mobile developers to build custom search experiences. If you’re one of those developers thinking about addingAzure Searchto your apps, there is good news, as Microsoft has added a more economical choice to their offerings in the new Basic tier, reportseWeek.

The Basic plan sits in the middle of the two existing tiers, Free and Standard, offering scale advantage to the former and cost advantage to the latter. The Basic plan allows indexing of maximum 1 million documents, compare to 10,000 and 50MB for the Free Plan, and 180 million and 300GB and up for the Standard Plan. The Basic Plan goes for $75 per month and will be half-off during the preview period.

“Basic is great for cases where you need the production-class characteristics of Standard but have lower capacity requirements,”

-Liam Cavanagh, principle program manager, Microsoft Azure Search

Azure Search’s admirable performance is discussed by principal program manager Liam Cavanagh including indexing roughly 15,000 documents per minute, a million documents in about an hour, and five queries per second with approximately 200 milliseconds delay. The Basic tier will give customers with smaller demands the advanced capabilities of Azure Search missing in the Free plan, with less of a budget burden then previously. Microsoft’s other cloud search indexer for unstructured data, the in-beta Azure Blob Storage, was also mentioned.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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