Last week, Microsoft announced a reduction in Azure Archive Storage prices by up to 50 percent, in a bid to provide the most cost-effective storage access. Today, the tech giant has unveiled a new ...

In June, Microsoft announced the general availability of a new premium tier for its Azure Files service. The new tier, available in 19 regions globally, offers a higher level of performance and ...

Microsoft has moved Cool Blob Storage to general availability, offering space at a cost of 1¢ per GB per month, depending on the region. The new 'cool' tier of storage offers Azure customers something ...

Microsoft this week rolled out a preview of a new georedundant option as part of its Windows Azure Storage service. The new "read access-geographically redundant storage" option is currently available ...

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Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services reduced its prices for its S3 cloud storage service and today, Microsoft is following suit with a price reduction for its own cloud storage services. Locally ...

The cloud-storage pricing wars just keep going and going. The latest to trim prices is Microsoft, following similar back-to-back moves by Amazon and Google. On December 5, Microsoft announced its ...

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions. The ...

If you're coding Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017 to work with Azure Storage, one tool that can assist when running functions locally is the Microsoft Azure Storage Emulator, as shown in this ...