Microsoft Plans to Cut Azure Cloud Storage Cost to Match AWS Cloud Services
February 1, 2014
Grazed from GreatResponder. Author: Maria Dehn.
A substantial reduction in the prices of Azure cloud storage services is being implemented by Microsoft Corporation in the wake of making its cloud computing services more affordable and competitive against the cloud services giant AWS. This was announced by the software giant on Jan 28, 2014.
This announcement came after the announcement of AWS to reduce the prices of its public cloud services earlier a few days before. This cost reduction in the domain of cloud storage and other cloud computing services indicates a clear rivalry of these two giants to capture as much customer base as possible, in this domain of business…
In the company statement, it was further explained that the price reduction will be implemented from March 13, 2014 and it will be implemented across the board globally. “This reduction in cost will result Azure cloud services, such as – Block Blob Storage, Page Blobs, and Disk Blobs Storage – available at lower than AWS services in certain regions and countries” quoted in the statement…
Read more from the source @ http://greatresponder.com/2014/01/31/microsoft-plans-to-cut-azure-cloud-storage-cost-to-match-aws-cloud-services/
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