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The Cloud Price Wars Continue: Azure Services Get Price Cuts
Microsoft has unleashed another round of price cuts for a large number of Azure services.
Rod Trent
September 26, 2014
1 Min Read
Microsoft has its pricing gun primed again and it's not afraid to use it.
On Thursday, Microsoft announced a large round of price cuts for many of its Azure services. The price reductions are effective immediately and percentages of savings vary per service.
It's obvious the price cuts are in an effort to continue its competitive push against Amazon, Google, and others. But, Microsoft has promises that as it increases its datacenter capacity, the prices will decrease. The company is continually adding new datacenters across the US and in many countries and expanding capacity in existing ones.
The full list of services affected:
Backup
BizTalk Server
BizTalk Services
Cache
CDN
Data Transfer
ExpressRoute Exchange Provider Data Transfer Out
ExpressRoute Exchange Provider
ExpressRoute Network Service Providers
Media Services (Encoding)
Media Services (Reserved Encoding E1)
Media Services (Reserved Streaming)
Mobile Services
Multi-Factor Authentication (Per Auth)
Multi-Factor Authentication (Per User)
Reserved IP Address Hours
Scheduler
SQL Server for Virtual Machines
Storage Transactions
Traffic Manager DNS queries
Traffic Manager Health Checks
Virtual Network Gateway Hour
You can review the pricing changes in the following table: Azure pricing updates
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