Microsoft: Windows Azure cloud-based is going to price Amazon follow

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Microsoft has its Windows Azure cloud platform officially as an infrastructure-as-a-service in the use of it. In addition, promises the software giant price level to fall with that of market leader Amazon and announced already a number of price reductions.

Windows Azure Infrastructure Services since June as a preview was available, of Azure according to the software giant, now a complete cloud platform that also can serve as a platform-as-a-service. Moreover, it offers the new feature of Azure to developers the possibility to implement Active Directory-user management in Microsoft’s cloud environment to use.

With the announcement that Windows Azure Infrastructure Services is available, Microsoft does also promise that every reduction in price which is the market leader Amazon Web Services will follow. The software giant also has the prices for some of the cloud services immediately with 21 to 33 percent. Furthermore, there are new instances available for SQL Server, SharePoint, BizTalk Server and Dynamics NAV, and there are virtual machines with more cpu power and ram – up to 8 cores and 56GB available.

Microsoft gives no figures about the financial results that the Azure book, but the company wants to have to say that the approximately 200,000 customers that has more than 1.5 million virtual machines running. Every day there would be approximately one thousand new customers added. In addition, think Microsoft with Azure, especially customers from the enterprisemarkt to be able to string through his on-premise opportunities for the installation of private cloud, while Amazon focuses on public clouddienstverlening.