Microsoft, in keeping with its pledge to match Amazon price cuts on commodity cloud services, is dropping prices on select Azure cloud services starting October 1



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To qualify for the reduced rates, customers need to purchase these services through Microsoft's web site. Customers with Enterprise Agreements "will continue to enjoy even lower prices," Microsoft's blog post says.

These latest cuts coincide with Microsoft's pledge to match price cuts on commodity cloud services from Amazon.

“As we committed over a year ago, Microsoft remains committed to matching AWS list prices on compute, storage and bandwidth," a Microsoft spokesperson said, in response to the reason for the cuts.

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