On the back of a falling Aussie dollar, Microsoft has hiked Australian prices for its Azure cloud services by 26 percent.
Microsoft’s new prices won’t affect existing annuity volume licensing agreements, but will apply to new or renewing contracts. A company spokesperson said the company policy is to “periodically assess our pricing to ensure there is reasonable alignment with the market.”
Jason Zander, corporate vice president for Microsoft Azure, told the AFR Microsoft remains committed to price-matching arch rival Amazon. “For storage and networking and some of the components we have a price match guarantee – if Amazon drops their price then so do we,” he said