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Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by rpedela »

mikebabineau wrote: post #47
rpedela wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of AWS's major outages have been related to EBS. Although outages can happen to any hosting provider, and I am sure they have fixed the previous issues. So EBS should get more stable over time and it is already quite stable. The performance of EBS is pretty bad, and getting decent performance is expensive. Having said that, if your application runs in memory and disk usage is infrequent then it is probably fine…

From what I've seen/heard/experienced, Provisioned IOPS largely addressed the issues with inconsistent performance.

Yes but it is very expensive.

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by nkvoll »

gtaylor wrote: post #29

Just 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?

How I'm reading this, both up-front reservation fees and the hourly rates are lower for a lot of instance types.

For example:

Now: m3.xlarge $1266 $0.105 per Hour $1922 $0.086 per Hour

April 1st: m3.xlarge $886 $0.074 per Hour $1345 $0.06 per Hour

It sounds weird if Amazon is actually going to keep charging the higher rate to existing customers, as they've already paid the higher reservation fee as well.

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by Aqua_Geek »

gtaylor wrote: post #50
nirvdrum wrote: post #45

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The other fun tidbit is on heavy reservations you pay per-hour even if you're not using the machine. That's not the case for the light or medium. So keep that in mind when planning out your reservations. When we switched off EC2 it was financially advantageous to basically give away our heavy instances on the marketplace just to shed the liability.

After this latest round of price cuts, I'm starting to question whether I even want to reserve instances on the lower end. An m3.medium is about $52/month on demand vs $35/month (amortized over 12 months with a 1-year heavy usage reservation). In this example, it becomes a question of whether it's worth saving $130'ish a year for the liability that a 1-year m3.medium heavy util reservation represents. At the lower en…

Maybe my math is off, but I calculated $35/mo for medium utilization m3.medium vs $32/mo for heavy utilization. In that case, I don't think a heavy utilization reservation makes sense but a medium utilization reservation still might (as you're saving ~$20/mo over on-demand).

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by troels »

elbear wrote: post #60
troels wrote: post #56

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Where do you see the new pricing for RDS?

Here http://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/effective-april-2014/

Thanks - This is fantastic news for us. A quick calculation says we'll save about 30% on our next bill. RDS makes up a big chunk of that.

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by copergi »

grosbisou wrote: post #6
seldo wrote: post #5

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DO's "internal" networking/security group support is still immature. I use DO for personal stuff, but at work we use AWS. Just never EBS. Ever.

What's wrong with EBS? And for what usage?

It went down in 2012 and somehow rather than get the correct idea from that (everything breaks) people took this bizarre notion that EBS is bad and everything else has perfect reliability. In reality, tons of other AWS services run on top of EBS, including load balancers. When EBS fails again, the people thinking they are avoiding it will still have outages.

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Post by superflit »

JNox64 wrote: post #24
spoiledtechie wrote: post #17

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Be more constructive and maybe I won't vote you down next time.

My apologies, didn't know humor was considered destructive on HN. =| There goes my excitement for the price drop. =( edit: do I get my one point back if I delete it or am I permanently shamed?

Don't be a karma whore
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