<story><title>New lower Azure pricing</title><url>https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-lower-azure-pricing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tshtf</author><text>As kyledrake so eloquently said before: &amp;quot;The bandwidth is the soda.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12270129&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12270129&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;AWS and Azure overcharge on bandwidth about 10 to 20 times the prevailing rate. Something to keep in mind for high bandwidth applications.</text></comment>
<story><title>New lower Azure pricing</title><url>https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-lower-azure-pricing/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Maarten88</author><text>What I don&amp;#x27;t understand about Azure pricing is how much more expensive a Windows VM is compared to an equivalent Linux machine. A D1v2 costs $54 with Linux and $104 with Windows (per month). This extends to larger instances: Windows costs twice the price of Linux on the same instance. The only difference is the Windows licence, and $50 per month for the smallest machine (and hundreds for bigger instances) seems very unreasonable.&lt;p&gt;The only explanation I can think of for this is that they probably want to compete on price with AWS, while keeping profits from their traditional customers high.</text></comment>