cloud pricing

Microsoft will retire Azure Maps Gen1 pricing for Standard S0 and Standard S1 accounts on September 15, 2026, automatically moving remaining customers to Gen2 pricing across Azure, with some common geocoding workloads facing list-price increases of roughly five to nine times. That is not merely...

Microsoft will retire Azure Maps Gen1 pricing on September 15, 2026, automatically moving remaining Standard S0 and Standard S1 accounts to Gen2 pricing worldwide unless customers switch earlier, budget for the change, or migrate workloads to another mapping platform. The retirement is not new...

Microsoft is now set to face one of the most consequential cloud-pricing lawsuits ever brought in the UK, and the implications reach well beyond a single licensing dispute. A London tribunal has allowed a mass claim to proceed alleging that Microsoft overcharged British businesses for Windows...

Microsoft is widening Azure’s cost-control playbook in a way that goes beyond the familiar reservation model, and the timing matters. With new cross-service Savings Plans for Azure databases, customers can now commit to a dollar-per-hour spend and let Microsoft apply discounts across eligible...

Microsoft’s latest Windows Azure update is a clear, targeted push to make the cloud platform cheaper and more practical for developers and QA teams—by changing how compute is billed, relaxing license restrictions for MSDN subscribers, and adding a set of developer-centric services that shorten...