Microsoft makes no bones about why it is cutting prices on its Azure D-series virtual machines: it is going head-to-head with Amazon Web Services.
Nicole Herskowitz, director of product marketing, Cloud Platform, wrote in a blog post:
As part of our promise to deliver the best customer value on Azure, we have had a longstanding commitment to make our prices comparable on commodity services like compute, storage, and bandwidth relative to Amazon Web Services.
Microsoft has cut prices up to 17% on the latest version of its A...