AWS EC2 Instances Price Cut
AWS EC2 Instances Price Cut by UCStrategies Staff
Amazon Web Services has lowered the price on a range of its services, and this is the 25th price reduction since 2006. The cloud service provider has a strategy of offering bargain-basement prices on its infrastructure.
The company's On-Demand Amazon EC2 instances operating on Linux had its prices cut last week.
The price cuts are relevant to the CPU and memory offered in the AWS M1 (First Generation Standard), M2 (High Memory), M3 (Second Generation Standard), and C1 (High-CPU) families.
According to the blog of Jeff Barr, the chief technology evangelist for AWS: “[The company will] continue to work to make AWS more powerful and less expensive, and to pass the savings on to you.”
The amount in terms of the price cuts range between services. The M1 standard in the U.S. West Region in North California, for example, offers savings at 27.7 percent. Additionally, the same service offering in the U.S. East Region in Northern Virginia has had its price lowered by 7.7 percent.
The U.S. West Region C1 standard prices in Northern California were cut by 11.3 percent, and the service for the U.S. East Region in Northern Virginia was cut by 12.1 percent.
According to AWS, the price of transferring data from one AWS region to another will also be lowered. In the Asia Pacific Region, the savings range from 26 percent, and in the Oregon and Northern California regions in the U.S. West regions and the Northern Virginia region in the U.S. East, prices have been lowered by 83 percent.
The prices on Second Generation (M3) instances on EC2 and M3 offer around 50 percent higher CPU performance than other families of instances, and AWS also state that there is expanded availability of the M3 service – it was previously only available in the Northern Virginia region.
M3 instances can now be used by customers in Oregon, Northern California, Ireland, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney and GovCloud (U.S.) regions, and there is a planned release date for this service in Sao Paolo, Brazil in the next few weeks, according to Barr. (CY) Link