We believe in providing the most innovative cloud offerings at incredibly competitive prices to our customers. As part of this promise, we regularly lower our prices as Azure continues to grow at scale and remain committed to our price match promise.

Last week, at the Microsoft //Build conference, we showcased great new Azure services and improvements. Today, we are pleased to follow up these announcements with additional price reductions that make Azure even more attractive. Specifically, we are lowering prices on previously-launched Dv2 Promo Virtual Machines to provide our customers with the cost savings of our upcoming hyper-threaded Dv3 VMs prior to their launch.

Effective today, prices of Dv2 Promo VMs will be lower by up to 7% for Linux VMs and by up to 5% of Windows VMs. Below are the price reductions in a few representative regions. The complete set of new prices can be found on our VM pricing page.

Region Linux Windows West US -7.0% -5.0% East US -7.0% -5.0% Canada Central -6.5% -4.0% West Europe -6.5% -5.0% North Europe -6.5% -4.0% UK South -7.0% -4.0% Southeast Asia -6.0% -4.5% Japan East -7.0% -4.5% Australia East -7.0% -5.0% Central India -6.5% -4.0% Korea Central -7.0% -4.0% Brazil South -7.0% -5.0%

When we launch our next generation, Dv3 VMs in the next few months, they will be available at these new lower prices as well. For more information on Dv2 promotion and additional details on pricing, please visit the Azure VM pricing page.