Phew! Brits escape Azure price hikes as rest of world bears the brunt Blighty has dodged the price hike bullet that Microsoft is set to fire into Europe and Australia, which will see customers paying more for Azure cloud services - much more, in fact. As revealed this morning, appreciation of the US dollar compared to the Euro and the Aussie dollar will lead to price jumps of eleven and 26 per …
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It would be idiotic for European and Australian Microsoft Azure customers to remain with the service if UK is getting a pass for price hikes, for no aparent good reason. In fact, it is idiotic for Cloud Computing Services users in these areas to subscribe to Azure in first place when "proven" far superior, significantly more reliable, secure and competitively priced alternatives are available in Open Stack based Cloud Services from European and Australian technology companies.
The Brits will most likely not escape Azure price hikes in near future, when the high costs of upgrading Azure by Microsoft to near standards and quality of Amazon AWS and Open Stack Cloud Computing Services will cause the company to raise the bar on customer ££ outlay.
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