You want to build an app and need a backend but have a limited budget? This presentation is a look at two major solutions: 1 - Using Cloud services like Azure, AppHarbour & Amazon cheaply 2 - Using combination of other services to power your app

1. Building services for apps
on a shoestring budget
AppFactory Training ⛟ Robert MacLean 28 May 2014

3. Always check
• http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/overview/
• http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
• Azure is big and complex – but there are a couple of free services
and some stuff is cheap

4. Web Sites
• 10 sites
• 1Gb storage
• WebJobs
• No domain
• 5Gb transfer (need to be over 14Gb to hit $1 / month)

5. Mobile Services
• 10 services/month
• 20Mb database

6. Notification Hubs
• 500 devices/per day (notifications)
• 3333 pushes per day (6 pushes per device)
• 500k API calls
• SecureCom = Free SSL

7. Databases
• Was Web & Business
• Cheapest was 100Mb web @ $5 / m
• Future (and now in preview)
• Basic/Std/Premium
• Cheapest is $2.50 / month (2GB!)

8. It’s not just Azure

9. Out of the box thinking
https://github.com/mapkyca/ifttt-webhook

10. Out of the box thinking
20Gb per day

11. Out of the box thinking