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This is crazy. The savings we'll see from this alone are enough for another full-time dev or two.
This is huge. Startups everywhere are huge beneficiaries of this price war between Amazon and Google over the future of cloud computing.
Let's just hope they all stay in business so we don't end up with only one player in the market...who can then jack up prices at will.
That only took one day! This competition looks good for the future.
This is crazy. The savings we'll see from this alone are enough for another full-time dev or two.
How many instances do you run? At $17.52 saved per year for m1.small that means you must be running over 10k instances to save enough for another full-time dev or two... if your devs are located in SF area.
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It's worth calling and talking to your sales rep about this. I've found AWS to be surprisingly accommodating with pricing.
I accidentally ran a spot instance for $70 an hour for two hours due to my less-then-smart configuration. They refunded me. :)
I'm very impressed with Amazon's scale and their ability to produce such low prices. Whilst many SaaS vendors (and even traditional brick and mortar business) seemingly keep on increasing prices because of "inflationary" pressures and whatnot... Amazon just keeps on showing - the consumers are being taken for a ride by the rest of the businesses out there.
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Let's just hope they all stay in business so we don't end up with only one player in the market...who can then jack up prices at will.
When it comes to companies like Google and Amazon, I don't think that's a worry.