Microsoft Azure News, Price Update: VMs, Storage Services Offered at Low Prices, Check Out List of Prices
Microsoft has lowered the price of several of its virtual machines (VMs) and storage services on the Azure cloud platform.
Microsoft Azure is composed of data and cloud computing services, which include storage, analytics, networking, media, mobile and databases. As confirmed by Microsoft Australia to Life Hacker, the lowered prices are applied to the local regions of Azure.
The Redmond-based tech giant, specifically, offered cut-rate prices of A1 Basic VM instances and Compute Optimized F Series. The former product is available with up to 61 percent discount while the latter has a 24 percent slash off its price.
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The Azure F Series VMs are used for optimizing complicated workloads. They are usually consumed for web servers, gaming, batch processing and other similar activities.
"We strive hard at Azure to offer you the best value in one of the most cost effective ways in the public cloud. We believe in providing a comprehensive cloud platform that not only enables customers to innovate rapidly, but to also do so at the best possible prices," wrote Microsoft Azure Director of Product Marketing, Venkat Gattemneni, on Azure's official website.
As for those in the United Kingdom, the F1 to F16 Azure VMs are available at 23 percent discount for Linux and 18 percent slash off the price for Windows. The A1 Basic Azure VMs can be owned at less than 42 percent of the original price for Linux and 51 percent less for Windows.
Aside from the VMs, several Azure Storage products are also available at discounted prices. The Hot Block Blob can be owned with 26 percent markdown while the Cool Block Blob is 38 percent less than the original price.
Users of General Purpose Blob Storage can take advantage of the reduced price by moving their files to their Azure Blob Storage account via several tools like AZ copy.
According to ZDNet, Microsoft has been promoting discounted prices of Azure products for quite some time now. They reportedly are planning to attract more users to try their cloud services, especially for larger commodity services.
