Price reduction for Windows Azure Storage

The official Windows Azure blog announced the next price reduction for Windows Azure Storage services. From December 12, Windows Azure customers who need to store information in blobs, queues, tables or disks of the Storage subsystem will be able to purchase the necessary storage at 28% cheaper .

Below are the changes in prices depending on the volume:

Capacity	Geo-distributed (old price)	Geo-distributed (new price)	Locally distributed (old price)	Locally distributed (new price)
up to 1 TB per month	$ 0.125 per GB	$ 0.095 per GB	$ 0.093 per GB	$ 0.07 per GB
next 49 TB	$ 0.11 per GB	$ 0.08 per GB	$ 0.083 per GB	$ 0.065 per GB
next 450 TB	$ 0.095 per GB	$ 0.07 per GB	$ 0.073 per GB	$ 0.06 per GB
next 500 TB	$ 0.09 per GB	$ 0.065 per GB	$ 0.063 per GB	$ 0.055 per GB
next 4000 TB	$ 0.08 per GB	$ 0.06 per GB	$ 0.053 per GB	$ 0.045 per GB
next 4000 TB	$ 0.055 per GB		$ 0.037 per GB
more than 9000 TB / month	personal agreement	personal agreement	personal agreement	personal agreement

This is another price reduction, the last time on March 8, 2012 prices were reduced by 12% . In addition to the price reduction announcement, the developers blog contains statistics that over 4 trillion objects have already been saved in Windows Azure Storage by companies and developers from around the world.

Today, developers of any platform and in any programming language through the REST API or through toolkits for .NET, Java, Node.JS, PHP, Python and mobile platforms Windows Phone, Windows 8 and iOS, which can available with source code.

Those who want to try Windows Azure can get a free trial for 90 days . Developers with MSDN subscriptions can start using Windows Azure for free . In addition, for companies that want to save a flexible system of discounts up to 32% is offered.