How to computer clouds charge me for CPU usage

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I’m considering moving my blog to either MS Azure or Google App Engine, using either an ASP.NET or Python blogging engine, but I can’t understand how they will charge me for CPU usage. The bandwidth and storage charges seem straightforward, but not the CPU…

According to the services' respective documentation, I will pay either $0.12 or $0.10 for an hour of CPU usage. Does that mean I will be charged approximately 30 days * 24h * $0.12 = $86.40 monthly regardless of the number of visitors and the complexity of my code? Will I pay the same CPU price when I have 2 visitors a day as when I have one thousand?

Best Answer

Google App Engine charges for actual CPU time, as implied by their partial unit FAQ answer:

http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/billing.html#rounding

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