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.
Any official open Microsoft channel for this anouncement?
There hasn’t been a public announcement from Microsoft about this. They sent info to clients and partners and this post is based on the info that’s been made available via forums and LinkedIn etc.