Microsoft is famous for rebranding
its products timely. The Visual Studio Online was first announced in May 2019 as
Private Preview and just after six months Microsoft announced it as Public
Preview during Microsoft Ignite 2019 in the month of November.
Visual Studio Online could not
receive the global market yet and Microsoft has announced the new name to the
same product Visual Studio Codespaces on 30 April 2020.
There are various factors
speculated behind this big decision. The technologies are gradually moving
towards Big Data, AI enabled systems and there is demand of such solutions in
development space too.
It is not only the browser-based
version of Visual Studio but more of a cloud-based development environment. You
can access Visual Studio Codespaces in remote environments from common
templates, could be cloned from a GitHub repo, and also allow edit code in a
browser.
The big news is the price drop of this
rebranded service. I sense that this service would be a Pay As You Go model.
The below image and pricing details
have been taken from Microsoft’s official blog.
The new pricing for each active Codespace
breaks down like this:
|
Linux instance type
|
Price / hr (today)*
|
Price / hr (next week)*
|
|
Standard (4 cores, 8 GB RAM)
|
$0.45
|
$0.17
|
|
Premium
(8 cores, 16 GB RAM)
|
$0.87
|
$0.34
|
Here’s the above pricing table
repeated with the Basic instance type added in:
|
Linux instance type
|
Price / hr (today)*
|
Price / hr (next week)*
|
|
Basic (2 cores, 4 GB RAM)
|
$0.24
|
$0.08
|
|
Standard
(4 cores, 8 GB RAM)
|
$0.45
|
$0.17
|
|
Premium (8 cores, 16 GB RAM)
|
$0.87
|
$0.34
|
Thanks for reading
Abhishek Maitrey
Twitter: @abhimaitrey
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