Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place
Wow.First of all, I'm curious to what proportions this is driven primarily by remote office work (O365), videoconferencing streaming, recreational video streaming (does Disney+ run on Azure?), or what.But second... I'm fascinated by the concept of prioritization rules in place rather than simply raising prices. I wonder if it "looks bad" to raise prices, or if the vast majority of customers already have locked-in prices contractually so that raising prices has little effect. But I'd always thought that with AWS's spot pricing and so forth, that auction-style dynamic pricing was a core feature of clouds.