Right after Amazon unveiled a new reserved instance type, Microsoft sliced prices for a slew of virtual machines on Microsoft Azure. Even steeper discounts are available on top of that, but for Enterprise Agreement customers only.
The price reductions focus on what Microsoft describes as its most popular virtual machine type, the Dv2, which uses a 2.4GHz Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processor and has “load balancing and auto-scaling built in at no additional charge,” according to the post on the Azure Blog describing the price cuts.
