Prepare for specific Azure VM series and Azure Storage service price updates in seven Azure regions globally

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You’re receiving this notification because you are using Azure Virtual Machines and/or Azure Storage services across one or more subscriptions in specific Azure regions that will experience a price update as specified below.

Azure periodically reviews regional pricing to reflect current market conditions and to support continued investment in capacity, reliability, security, and performance. Beginning 1 February 2027, prices for specific Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Storage services will increase by 8% to 17% in the specific regions listed below.

Our goal with these adjustments is to improve consistency across regions, giving you a more predictable basis for planning global deployments and choosing the best region for every workload, with minimal price variance. These updates also reflect market conditions in each region and our continued investment in the industry’s most advanced silicon and hardware, giving you access to innovation and price-performance advantages your workloads demand.

We recognize that these changes may affect your cloud and workload plans across regions. We want to provide advance visibility into pricing changes as well as opportunities to optimize costs across your Azure deployment to help make informed decisions across current and future deployments. Below you will find details on specific regional changes and guidance for next steps.

Beginning 1 February 2027, pricing will increase for specific Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Storage services in the following Azure regions:

EU West (Amsterdam) – 9%

EU North (Dublin) – 17%

France Central – 11%

France South – 11%

Norway East – 9%

Norway West – 9%

Southeast Asia (Singapore) – 8%

Services excluded from the regional pricing update

The pricing adjustments described above do not apply to the following Azure Virtual Machine series and Azure Storage services:

Azure Virtual Machines

• 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

Azure Storage services

• Azure Container Storage
• Azure Managed Lustre
• Azure 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
• Transaction Optimized SKU

Recommended action

To help you factor these updates into your planning, we recommend that you:

• Review the most current regional pricing for Azure Virtual Machines and Storage resources. Compare it with your current usage, budgets, reservations, and planned deployments to estimate the impact before 1 February 2027.
• Evaluate how updated pricing may shift your current and future workload deployment strategies.

Help and support

We recognize that price changes may have a significant impact on your planning. Customers with an active support plan can submit a support request for technical assistance with assessing affected resources and evaluating optimization or deployment options.

If you have questions, get answers from community experts in Microsoft Q&A. If you have a support plan and need technical help, create a support request.