Microsoft is cutting prices for a number of its Azure services to match (and in some cases, beat) Amazon's latest pricing.



From All About Microsoft:

A week after Amazon axed prices across a number of its cloud services, effective April 1, Microsoft announced price cuts of its own.

Microsoft officials said on March 31 that they are chopping the price of compute by 27 percent to 35 percent; and storage by 44 percent to 65 percent. Microsoft also cut the pricing for memory-intensive Linux instances by 35 percent and Windows instances by 27 percent. Block Blob storage prices are also going down: up to 65 percent for LRS and 44 percent for GRS, according to Microsoft.

  Microsoft chops Azure prices to match Amazons latest reductions