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EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)

I am happy to be able to announce that an EC2 price reduction will go in to effect on December 1, 2016, just in time to make your holiday season just a little bit more cheerful! Our engineering investments, coupled with our scale and our time-tested ability to manage our capacity, allow us to identify and pass on the cost savings to you.

We are reducing the On-Demand, Reserved Instance (Standard and Convertible) and Dedicated Host prices for C4, M4, and T2 instances by up to 25%, depending on region and platform (Linux, RHEL, SUSE, Windows, and so forth). Price cuts apply across all AWS Regions. For example:

  • C4 – Reductions of up to 5% in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Ireland) and 20% in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Singapore).
  • M4  – Reductions of up to 10% in US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Frankfurt) and 25% in Asia Pacific (Singapore).
  • T2 – Reductions of up to 10% in US East (N. Virginia) and 25% in Asia Pacific (Singapore).

As always, you do not need to take any action in order to benefit from the reduction in On-Demand prices. If you are using billing alerts or our newly revised budget feature, you may want to consider revising your thresholds downward as appropriate.

Jeff;

PS – By my count, this is our 53rd price reduction.

Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr

Jeff Barr is Chief Evangelist for AWS. He started this blog in 2004 and has been writing posts just about non-stop ever since.