Amazon AWS is introducing new reduced pricing. What's interesting is that
it is based, apparently, on their data center upgrade strategy! "Older"
instances have their prices reduced .. thus I guess its a way of managing
the replacement older hardware!
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#reserved
I recall in the past calculating their charges being over $60/mo. Now you
can reserve their entry level systems for $69/year! That's getting
tempting, even for just moving my blog there.
So amongst the giants (Amazon, Google, Apple,...), I wonder who has the
largest combined computing/storage infrastructure?
-- Owen
Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,
We have a trio of announcements today that will help you run your
applications globally at a reduced cost.
1. Global Expansion of Second Generation Standard Instances
Last year, we announced Second Generation Standard (M3) instances. M3
instances have the same CPU and memory ratio as First Generation Standard
(M1) instances but provide more CPU capability, and the option of an
instance type with 8 virtual cores. In this initial launch, M3 instances
were only available in the Northern Virginia region, but now you can launch
instances as On Demand, Reserved or Spot instances in the Oregon, Northern
California, Ireland, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney and GovCloud (US) regions as
well. We will launch M3 instances in the São Paulo region in the coming
weeks. For more on M3 instances, please visit the Amazon EC2 instance type
page (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types).
2. Price reduction for Amazon EC2
We are reducing Linux On Demand prices for First Generation Standard (M1)
instances, Second Generation Standard (M3) instances, High Memory (M2)
instances and High CPU (C1) instances in all regions. All prices are
effective from February 1, 2013. These reductions vary by instance type
and region, but typically average 10-20% price drops . For complete pricing
details, please visit the Amazon EC2 pricing page (
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing).
3. Reduced Data Transfer Pricing
We are reducing prices for data transfer between AWS locations. Our new
lower pricing applies to data transfer between all 9 global AWS regions,
and from AWS regions to all global CloudFront edge locations. Previously,
we have charged normal internet bandwidth prices for data transfer, but are
now lowering these charges significantly -- allowing you to even more cost
effectively move data between regions for serving customers in local
geographies, for disaster recovery, and for many other use cases. The new
prices are effective February 1, 2013, and you don’t need to do anything to
take advantage of these new prices. To learn more, please visit the Amazon
S3 pricing page (http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing).
Sincerely,
The AWS team
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