Azure's anti competitive conduct is also the reason that AWS stopped lowering prices. Before 2014 or so, AWS would periodically reduce prices on major services

Azure's anti competitive conduct is also the reason that AWS stopped lowering prices. Before 2014 or so, AWS would periodically reduce prices on major services passing on falling technology costs. Azure didn't like that, so they aligned their prices to AWS's, matching immediately the same discounts on the same service. This is a form a predatory pricing, because the goal is to kill the incentive for competitors to reduce prices, by denying them market share gains when they do.