Category: Price Reduction

We’ve removed the distinction between Amazon EC2 running Windows and Amazon EC2 running Windows with Authentication Services, allowing all of our Windows instances to make use of Authentication Services such as LDAP, RADIUS, and Kerberos. With this change, any Windows instance can host a Domain Controller or join an existing domain. File sharing services such […]

Our customers are putting the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances to use in many different ways. Here are some of the usage patterns that they’ve told us about: Steady State Usage – These customers have applications which require a fixed number of servers to be available at all times. Reserved Instances are advantageous for customers who […]

On February 1st, additional pricing tiers for high volume users of Amazon CloudFront go in to effect. We’ve been working to reduce our costs and to pass our savings along to you, our customers. If you are in the top bandwidth tier you can deliver content to customers in the United States and Europe for […]

Amazon S3 usage has grown very nicely in the last quarter and now stands at 29 billion objects, up from 22 billion just a quarter ago. As one of the S3 engineers told me last week, that’s over 4 objects for every person now on Earth! Our customers are keeping S3 pretty busy too. To […]

Amazon DevPay is pretty cool. It allows developers to use Amazon’s billing and account management to layer their own business models on top of Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. Developers using DevPay include SmugMug (for SmugVault), Wowza Media Systems, Red Hat, and SearchBlox. Earlier today we rolled out a brand new release of DevPay. The […]

Amazon DevPay now has a new and very powerful feature: tiered pricing for all usage-based components of a product’s price. Using this new feature, you have more flexibility when you create the pricing plan for your product. Specifically, you can now create multiple levels, or tiers. You can create any number of tiers within your […]

We’ve been working to drive down our costs and to pass the savings along to our customers. We’ve focused on bandwidth costs and are happy to announce that the cost of outbound bandwidth (for data transferred from within AWS to the outside world) has been reduced effective May 1, 2008. The old and new costs […]