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Owen Densmore

Amazon EC2 Pricing, Pay as you go for Cloud Computing Services

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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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Barry MacKichan

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing, Pay as you go for Cloud Computing Services

We have some experience with this. Our ftp site, which accounts for 80% of our traffic, has been on a t1.micro instance, their smallest, for $.007 an hour. With the $54 reservation fee, it is about $115 a year ($266 for 3 years) plus $.12 per gigabyte for outgoing traffic. The cost of bandwidth is considerably lower than we can get with a local carrier, and this is the major factor driving us to the cloud. We also have a CTAN mirror site that we run for the benefit of TeX users, and it sends out about 2 terabytes a month, which dwarfs the cost of running the machine. (I'm not counting the CTAN traffic when I say our ftp traffic is 80% of the total).

Gradually we are moving our website, forums, and build machines (except for the Mac) to a virtual private cloud inside the Amazon cloud. In spite of the stories you read in the press about outages at Amazon, their uptime percentage has quite a few more 9's than what we have done on our own. We are using EC2, S3, Route 53(DNS server), and VPC services at AWS.

--Barry

On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

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.