AWS News Blog
Category: Price Reduction
EC2 Dedicated Instance Price Reduction
I’m happy to announce that we are reducing the prices for Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances. Launched in 2011, Dedicated Instances run on hardware dedicated to a single customer account. They are ideal for workloads where corporate policies or industry regulations dictate physical isolation from instances run by other customers at the host hardware level. Like […]
Read MoreAmazon RDS Price Reduction (On-Demand and Reserved)
I’m happy to announce that we are lowering the price of Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) database instances, both On-Demand and Reserved. On-Demand prices have been reduced as much as 18% for MySQL and Oracle BYOL (Bring Your Own License) and 28% for SQL Server BYOL. All of your On-Demand usage will automatically be charged […]
Read MorePrices Reduced for Windows On-Demand EC2 Instances
The AWS team has been working hard to build powerful and exciting new features for Windows on AWS. In the last month we have released support for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a beta of the AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server, and new drivers for our virtual instances that improve performance and increase the […]
Read MoreDynamoDB – Price Reduction and New Reserved Capacity Model
We’re making Amazon DynamoDB an even better value today, with a price reduction and a new reserved capacity pricing model. Behind the scenes, we’ve worked hard to make this happen. We have fine-tuned our storage and our processing model, optimized our replication pipeline, and taken advantage of our scale to drive down our hardware costs. […]
Read MoreReserved Instance Price Reduction for Amazon EC2
The AWS team is always exploring ways to reduce costs and to pass the savings along to our customers. We’re more than happy to continue this tradition with our latest price reduction. Starting today, we are reducing prices for new EC2 Reserved Instances running Linux/UNIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server by […]
Read MorePrice Reductions & Expanded Free Tier for the Simple Queue Service (SQS) and the Simple Notification Service (SNS)
We launched the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) in 2004 and the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) in 2010. Our customers have constantly discovered powerful new ways to build more scalable, elastic and reliable applications with these building blocks. We learned, for example, that some customers use SQS as a buffer ahead of databases and […]
Read MoreAmazon RDS Price Reduction for Multi-AZ Deployments
When you create a Multi-AZ Database Instance using the Amazon Relational Database Service, we automatically create a standby instance which maintains an up-to-date copy of the primary database. If the primary database goes down due to a instance, storage, or network issue, Amazon RDS automatically initiates a failover from primary to secondary and also creates […]
Read MoreEC2’s M3 Instances Go Global; Reduced EC2 Charges and Lower Bandwidth Prices
We continue to work to make AWS more powerful and less expensive, and to pass the savings on to you. To that end, I have three important announcements: EC2’s M3 instance family is now available in all AWS Regions including AWS GovCloud (US). On-Demand prices for EC2 instances in the M1, M2, M3, and C1 […]
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