""Microsoft will continue to focus on bringing our customers a world-class service with an unrivaled user experience."
Had me going there for a second. Until I saw the drone/Apple piece I thought this might have been the poisson d'avril moment.
Microsoft will cut its Azure cloud prices after Amazon slashed its AWS prices in response to Google's cloud price cut. Redmond announced on Monday that it would lower its prices for cloud services between 27 and 65 percent on the April 3 in response to a wave of reductions that washed through the cloud industry after Google …
"A Linux-based Standard A5 instance with 14GB of memory, two CPU cores and up to 4TB of attached disk storage will fall from $0.320 per hour down to $0.22"
AKA $1927.2 /year
Storage*
Locally redundant storage: 1TB = 294.912 /year
Zone redundant storage: 1TB = 368.64 /year
Geo-redundant storage: 1TB = 589.824 /year
*Does not include cost of Azure bandwidth or your own bandwidth to move files.