[jakozaur]

It's fairly typical. Though I usually get preview to any service reasonable fast just by clicking on their website.

E.g. Amazon Kinesis:

Preview 14 Nov 2013: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-kinesis-real-time-pro...

Got access less than week from that.

GA 16 Dec 2013: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/16/amazon-...