Every Microsoft Azure price change CostMon tracks that actually moved a bill, cuts and increases both, with the source and what to do about it.https://costmon.comhttps://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-ultra-disk-price-cut-uk-south-2025https://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-ultra-disk-price-cut-uk-south-2025In UK South, provisioned IOPS on Ultra Disk dropped from $0.06205 to $0.02482 per month, and provisioned throughput from $0.40588 to $0.08103 per MBPS per month. Per-GiB capacity pricing didn't move. (−60% IOPS / −80% throughput) — Re-run the disk cost estimate for UK South workloads at the new per-unit rates before assuming last quarter's numbers still hold.Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft AzureCuthttps://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-inter-az-bandwidth-free-2024https://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-inter-az-bandwidth-free-2024Microsoft eliminated the per-GB charge for data moving across Availability Zones within a region, for both private and public IP traffic. (→ $0/GB) — Revisit any old cost-optimization advice that steered you away from zone-redundant architecture to dodge bandwidth charges. That tradeoff is gone.Tue, 21 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft AzureCuthttps://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-currency-price-alignment-2023https://costmon.com/price-changes#azure-currency-price-alignment-2023Microsoft moved to a twice-yearly currency-alignment cadence and raised local-currency Azure pricing to track USD: GBP up 9%, DKK/EUR/NOK up 11%, SEK up 15%. (+9% to +15% (non-USD)) — Check your billing currency and agreement type, and rebuild your forecast around the new rate instead of the one you budgeted with.Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTMicrosoft AzureIncrease