Microsoft also has a variant of its storage available that makes multiple replicas of data within one region and then replicates the data out to another region. As the size of the storage capacity grows, the cost per unit of capacity falls, thus: This storage has a tiered pricing scheme, with the first 1 TB costing 7 cents per GB per month. As the name suggests, the locally redundant storage makes multiple copies of data within a single region it has a 99.9 percent availability service level agreement. Microsoft said that it was cutting prices on Azure storage by up to 20 percent to match Amazon's price and added that it would cut the price of its locally redundant Disks/Page Blobs storage by up to 28 percent and was similarly cutting the charges for performing transactions against Azure storage by 50 percent. The precise numbers were not available yet, but Steven Martin, general manager for strategy and planning for Microsoft's Windows Azure public cloud, said that unlike Amazon, Microsoft was making its cloud storage price cuts available worldwide and would therefore undercut AWS pricing in many regions of the globe even as it matches the price cuts in the core US East region that is the touchstone for AWS and increasingly all clouds. The price cuts will be made on Microsoft's Block Blobs Storage and Disks/Page Blobs Storage, which are roughly analogous to the S3 object storage and EBS block storage sold by Amazon.
Microsoft promised last year it would compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services for compute and storage capacity on its public cloud, and it has made good on that promise by cutting prices for storage in the wake of a price cut last week by AWS.Īs is typical these days, Microsoft made the announcement via a blog posting, but interestingly the price cut is not effective immediately but rather on March 13.
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