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Maybe they are doing this to push people into regions with lower energy costs. Of course Northern Virginia or Canada is going to give you much higher ping times
by api 4y ago
Maybe they are doing this to push people into regions with lower energy costs. Of course Northern Virginia or Canada is going to give you much higher ping times.
- sird 4y agoInteresting thought. It would be crazy if turning down business was preferable to just raising prices to reflect increased energy costs. I'm not a cloud expert, but maybe they don't have the infra to price differently in some regions?
- Scoundreller 4y agoThat’s the problem with charging average costs (assuming they do that) but the new user costs are at the margin which can be muuuuch higher.
- semicolon_storm 4y agoAzure definitely has the ability to charge differently per region. They do it pretty frequently.
- danpalmer 4y agoWhy wouldn't they just price higher in those regions? People want/need regions for policy and compliance reasons, not just for ping, particularly with Europe and Germany I'd expect.
- 4ndrewl 4y agoAnd potential data residency issues
- janober 4y agoI do honestly not think there is any bad intent behind it. I am just surprised that this is happening at all (esp. not with a resolution time of multiple months). They must have known for a long time that this would happen, so I would have expected an early heads-up!