Hmm, the micro instances don't seem to have changed ($0.020/hr).
Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#32Remember, you get what (the reliability, service) you pay for.
And what happens when AWS is no longer a revenue source?
Shareholder (owner)'s decision: cut it.
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#33ec2 pricing is just a small piece of the whole bill. but it is great to see the price drops, thanks google! wonder if there would be price battle on bandwidth.
we have many customers on AWS, ec2 or compute is about 70% of the average bill.
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#34Just to make sure I'm reading this right, the upfront reservation fees are higher, but the reserved hourly rates dropped a good bit. It's cheaper over the duration of the reservation, but you owe more of the term upfront. Given this tidbit, might you reserve an instance now, pay the lower fee, but still take advantage of the new hourly rates on April 1? Or are you locked in at whatever rate your reservation is for?
You're locked into whatever rate your reservation is for. This is why you see rate fluctuations on the marketplace for the same instance type. It's also why a 3 year reservation may not make sense.
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#35Let us hope that RDS prices also drop as a result of this. It's enough of a value for us at the current price rates to be happy with it, but there will need to be some decrease to make sure that it makes financial sense over straight self-managed EC2.
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#36Let us hope that RDS prices also drop as a result of this. It's enough of a value for us at the current price rates to be happy with it, but there will need to be some decrease to make sure that it makes financial sense over straight self-managed EC2.
RDS prices dropping too.
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly - how can I run a database server without EBS?
We use RDS (they now support Postgres) and Elasticache. The pricing seems reasonable for the performance (I've not done benchmarks if I'm being honest), and you get to treat all your EC2 instances as expendable.
Sure - but I'm assuming RDS uses EBS under the covers...
I meant rather that is there any other option for persistent data on AWS?
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#38Let us hope that RDS prices also drop as a result of this. It's enough of a value for us at the current price rates to be happy with it, but there will need to be some decrease to make sure that it makes financial sense over straight self-managed EC2.
RDS prices dropping too. http://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/effective-april-2014/
Thanks, good sir! This is exciting!
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#39Just to make sure I'm reading this right, the upfront reservation fees are higher, but the reserved hourly rates dropped a good bit. It's cheaper over the duration of the reservation, but you owe more of the term upfront. Given this tidbit, might you reserve an instance now, pay the lower fee, but still take advantage of the new hourly rates on April 1? Or are you locked in at whatever rate your reservation is for?
You're locked into whatever rate your reservation is for. This is why you see rate fluctuations on the marketplace for the same instance type. It's also why a 3 year reservation may not make sense.
That makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
Bummer, though. We just reserved a multi-AZ m3.large RDS instance last week. I wish AWS would take up Google's system of graduated price reductions over steady run duration.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you even do anything without using EBS?
Exactly - how can I run a database server without EBS?
By having good replication, either hand rolled or built in.
At Netflix we use Cassandra and store all data on local instance storage. We don't use EBS for databases.