I was very frustrated last month when my trial subscription of Azure IaaS was disabled after a couple of days use (and I’m working on a post detailing how I later resurrected my server). The cause of that issue was that the free trial only bundled 1m IOPS (storage transactions).

I’ve been watching my use of the service this month, and waiting for the meter to start ticking up, but that hasn’t happened yet as the IOPS limit is now a much more generous and realistic 50x larger:

It’s great to see that Microsoft have made the trial more useful.