Last week Microsoft announced some more price reductions on a select number of Azure services. You can find all announced price-reductions here. Please note that these changes will take effect October 1st 2014.
The changed prices for the services I mostly interact with, are the following:
| Service | Old Price | New Price |
| Backup | $.28/GB per month | $.20/GB per month |
| Cache (Basic) | $25/month (prorated hourly) | $18/month (prorated hourly) |
| Cache (Premium) | $400/month (prorated hourly) | $290/month (prorated hourly) |
| Cache (Standard) | $100/month (prorated hourly) | $72/month (prorated hourly) |
| CDN (Zone 1) 0–10 TB | $.12/GB | $.087/GB |
| CDN (Zone 2) 0–10 TB | $.19/GB | $.138/GB |
| CDN (Zone 2) 10–50 TB | $.14/GB | $.13/GB |
| Data Transfer (Egress Zone 1) 0–10 TB | $.12/GB | $.087/GB |
| Data Transfer (Egress Zone 1) Next 40 TB | $.09/GB | $.083/GB |
| Data Transfer (Egress Zone 2) 0–10 TB | $.19/GB | $.138/GB |
| Data Transfer (Egress Zone 2) Next 40 TB | $.15/GB | $.135/GB |
| Data Transfer (Egress Zone 3) 0–10 TB | $.25/GB | $.181/GB |
| Data Transfer (Egress Zone 3) Next 40 TB | $.23/GB | $.175/GB |
| Data Transfer (Egress Zone 3) Next 100 TB | $.21/GB | $.17/GB |
| Data Transfer (Egress Zone 3) Next 350 TB | $.19/GB | $.16/GB |
| Multi-Factor Authentication (Per Auth) | $2/10 auths | $1.40/10 auths |
| Multi-Factor Authentication (Per User) | $2/user/month | $1.40/user/month |
| Reserved IP Address Hours | $.005/hour per IP | $.004/hour per IP |
| SQL Server for Virtual Machines (Enterprise) | $2.10/hour | $1.50/hour |
| SQL Server for Virtual Machines (Standard) | $.55/hour | $.40/hour |
| SQL Server for Virtual Machines (Web) | $.045/hour | $.032/hour |
| Storage Transactions | $.005/100K trans | $.0036/100K trans |
| Traffic Manager DNS queries | $.75/1M queries per month | $.54/1M queries per month |
| Traffic Manager Health Checks (Azure Endpoints) | $.50/month | $.36/month |
| Traffic Manager Health Checks (External Endpoints) | $.75/month | $.54/month |
| Virtual Network Gateway Hour | $.050/hour | $.036/hour |
