From 1 February 2027, Microsoft will raise prices for specific Azure Virtual Machine series and Azure Storage services in seven regions, by between 8% and 17%.
Regions and increases
Dublin takes the largest rise at 17%, and Singapore the smallest at 8%:
EU North (Dublin)
17%
France Central
11%
France South
11%
EU West (Amsterdam)
9%
Norway East
9%
Norway West
9%
Southeast Asia (Singapore)
8%
Microsoft has published an exclusion list as follows:
Excluded Virtual Machine series:
- v1: Bv1, D, Ds, F, Fs, G, Gs, L, NP, HCS
- v2: Av2, Amv2, Dv2, Dsv2, Fsv2, Lsv2
- v7: Dsv7, Ddsv7, Dlsv7, Dldsv7, Esv7, Edsv7
Excluded Azure Storage services: Container Storage, Managed Lustre, NetApp Files Cross Region Replication SKU, Blob Features, Change Feed, General Block Blob, Import/Export, Queues, Queues v2, Standard Page Blob, Storage Actions, Storage Bandwidth, Storage Discovery, Tables and the Transaction Optimized SKU.
If you’re heavily in these datacentres, particularly Dublin, modelling your bills next year – and potential mitigations – should be on the list for FinOps and ITAM teams.
Remember, this is the same date (Feb 1, 2027) that the reservation changes kick in too.
