I kind of like Azure and its management portal that makes it easy to setup and manage all their services, but I find the costs to be too high. An Extra small VM

I kind of like Azure and its management portal that makes it easy to setup and manage all their services, but I find the costs to be too high. An Extra small VM (1GHz CPU, 768MB RAM) runs at US$15/month without considering the additional cost of data transfer, storage transactions and storage cost. Compare that to DigitalOcean with their US$5/month for their equivalent offering. What draws me to Azure is the fact that MS have datacenters where I live.