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.