Three important announcements at Amazon Web Service: Reduced EC2 Charges ,Lower Bandwidth Prices…
- EC2's M3 instance family is available in all AWS Regions including AWS GovCloud (US).
- On-Demand prices for EC2 instances in the M1, M2, M3, and C1 families have been lowered.
- Prices for data transfer between AWS Regions have also been lowered.
Therefore you can now launch M3 instances in the US East (Northern
Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US),
Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia
Pacific (Sydney) Regions.
This reduction applies to all members of the M1 (First Generation
Standard), M2 (High Memory), M3 (Second Generation Standard), and C1 (High-CPU)
families.
We have noted that the size of the reductions vary, but generally average
10-20%. As usual, your AWS bill will automatically reflect the lower prices.
In regards to Regional Tranfer Price Reduction With nine AWS Regions in operation, you can already
build global applications that have a presence in two or more Regions.
Amazon Web Service is significantly lowering the cost of transferring data
between AWS Regions (by 26% to 83%). This price reduction applies to data
leaving one Region for another Region.
Here are the details:
Remark: ‘’The new pricing also applies to CloudFront origin fetches. In other
words, the cost to use CloudFront in conjunction with static data stored in S3
or dynamic data coming from EC2 will decline as a result of this announcement.’’
An example: Suppose you are delivering 100 TB of content per month to your
users, with a 10% cache miss rate (90% of the requests are delivered from a
cached copy in a CloudFront edge location), and that this content comes from
the Standard or Europe (Ireland) Amazon S3 Region. The cost of your origin
fetches (from CloudFront to S3) will drop from $1,228.68 to $204.80, an 83%
reduction.
