I'm excited for these changes. With today’s Windows Azure release we are also announcing significant price reductions to our Windows Azure compute options. Th

I'm excited for these changes. With today’s Windows Azure release we are also announcing significant price reductions to our Windows Azure compute options. This new pricing delivers a 21% price reduction from the previously announced pricing of Windows Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS), and a 33% price reduction for solutions deployed using our Windows Azure Cloud Services (PaaS) model. Our new VM pricing also matches Amazon’s on-demand VM pricing for both Windows and Linux VMs. With today’s Windows Azure release we are also adding two new VM size options to the existing 5 VM sizes we supported during the public preview. These two new VM sizes include a new 4 core x 28GB RAM configuration as well a 8 core x 56GB RAM configuration.