Microsoft Drops Azure Egress Fees (microsoft.com) 11
Microsoft has eliminated egress fees for customers removing data from its Azure cloud, joining Amazon Web Services and Google in this move. The decision comes as the European Data Act's provisions targeting lock-in terms are set to take effect in 2025. Microsoft adds: Azure already offers the first 100GB/month of egressed data for free to all customers in all Azure regions around the world. If you need to egress more than 100GB/month, please follow these steps to claim your credit. Contact Azure Support for details on how to start the data transfer-out process. Please comply with the instructions to be eligible for the credit. Azure Support will apply the credit when the data transfer process is complete and all Azure subscriptions associated to the account have been canceled. The exemption on data transfer out to the internet fees also aligns with the European Data Act and is accessible to all Azure customers globally and from any Azure region.
Very funny... "must close your account" (Score:3)
will apply the credit when the data transfer process is complete and all Azure subscriptions associated to the account have been canceled.
Now please give us the data transfer option that allows us to Migrate a portion of our services out without being forced to move 100% of everything out...
The choice to use a cloud service or not should Not be an All or nothing thing. It's very likely there will be SOME services one might want to move back to On-premise, but not 100% of servers.
Also, the time and manpower required to move Everything out may be much more and much more cost prohibitive.
Furthermore... Shouldn't MS as a service provider want an incremental moveout, where they get to continue earning some revenue from subscriptions For the part of service that would remain with them ?
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They are betting that your scenario is likely, that no significant customer would want to quit 'cold turkey', so they would rather dare the customer to quit cold turkey to get the free egress, or reserve the right to gouge the egress if they need so much as a toe in the cloud.
So it's malicious compliance, we will do what the law demands to honor the letter of letting someone leave our service behind, but we will preserve our current strategy for 90% of large customers that can't bring themselves to make an
Re:Very funny... "must close your account" (Score:4, Interesting)
talk to your cloud rep to see if you can get flexibility for your weirdo scenario.
Hardly a "weirdo" situation. One Azure subscription is Microsoft Azure AD (or Microsoft Entra whatever it's called now).
So if you have an Office 365 account, or someone with an exchange email address you would have to stop using Microsoft 365 to cancel all of your Azure subscriptions. In a modern organization that's effectively impossible.
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I commented elsewhere, it's $7000 egress on 100TB of data. That is seriously a rounding error of any operation dealing with that much data. Saying they're holding things hostage is laughable.
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Organizations that made themselves dependent on MS "services" deserve what they get. Fortunately, regulation in Europe will make that less and less acceptable, and eventually everybody of any consequence will need to be able to replace _any_ service provider. This is obviously a good thing, except for scummy monopolists.
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Copying 100TB out of azure costs $7000.
If you are storing that much data and $7000 is anything more than a rounding error then you're doing something wrong.
It's even cheaper at $6000 if you're just going through your ISPs link instead of direct to another cloud through msft's network.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en... [microsoft.com]
Such a surprise (Score:2)
And once again, who really has the power becomes obvious. MS is just a money-whore, like all the large enterprise.
As P. T. Barnum said: (Score:2)
"This way to the egress."