Microsoft announces Windows Azure storage another 28% reduction

Today we are delighted to announce that Windows http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13357.html ">azure Storage has another 28% reduction in price, effective December 12." This is further commitment to the best overall value of the industry after the March 8, 2012 reduction of 12%.

Lowering prices is just part of the story; we also add value to our storage offerings in a variety of ways. Our geographically redundant storage continues to lead the market between replicas over 400 miles. We have recently announced the deployment of a Windows Azure flat network across multiple data centers, which provides a high level of network connectivity while greatly enhancing the scenarios such as MapReduce, HPC, and others. We also announced the goal of increasing scalability for Windows Azure storage and investing in improved bandwidth between computing and storage.

Based on the tremendous growth we have experienced, our continued commitment to lower costs and increase capacity has aroused strong customer empathy. We have over 4 0 storage objects, averaging 270,000 requests per second, with a peak of 880,000 requests per second.

Windows Azure Storage account has geographical replication by default and provides maximum durability. To use locally redundant storage, customers can turn off geographical replication, which results in price discounts relative to geographically redundant storage. Here you can find detailed information about geographically redundant storage and locally redundant storage.

This is a detailed information about the new reduced pricing for geographically redundant storage and local redundancy storage (below is the monthly price per gigabyte):

In addition to low-cost storage, we continue to provide developers with a range of options for low-cost or free use of Windows Azure.

Give a few examples: