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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 ceejayoz »

copergi wrote: post #52
ghotli wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you break your services out onto stateless and stateful machines. After that, you make sure that each of your stateful services is resilient to individual node failure. I prefer to believe that if you can't roll your entire infrastructure over to new nodes monthly then you're unprepared for the eventual outage of a stateful service. Most databases have replication but you need to make sure that the characterist…

And you do what for loadbalancing?

IIRC, Amazon has been working on removing the ELB dependence on EBS. I haven't seen an announcement of them being done, though.

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by fragsworth »

I just reserved a series of heavy-utilization m3.xlarge instances for roughly $30k. Apparently, if I had waited a month, I could have saved about $13k because of these price reductions.

I can't help but feel that I got really fucked by poor timing that I couldn't control. It would hurt so much less if these price changes were more gradual and somewhat consistent (perhaps monthly).

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by anderiv »

fragsworth wrote: post #82

I just reserved a series of heavy-utilization m3.xlarge instances for roughly $30k. Apparently, if I had waited a month, I could have saved about $13k because of these price reductions. I can't help but feel that I got really fucked by poor timing that I couldn't control. It would hurt so much less if these price changes were more gradual and somewhat consistent (perhaps monthly).

It's worth calling and talking to your sales rep about this. I've found AWS to be surprisingly accommodating with pricing.

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by wise_young_man »

diafygi wrote: post #31

Hmm, the micro instances don't seem to have changed ($0.020/hr).

I was just thinking that, the micro EC2 is now becoming more and more devalued as the higher ones get closer to it's price per performance. I was hoping for us to be able to spin up Beanstalk apps a little cheaper though and it is the cheapest server option and $50/app vs Heroku is a bit expensive since it requires the ELB. I wouldn't mind it all if they had a way to deploy multiple apps using the EC2 servers and ELB you setup though.

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by vitalique »

fragsworth wrote: post #82

I just reserved a series of heavy-utilization m3.xlarge instances for roughly $30k. Apparently, if I had waited a month, I could have saved about $13k because of these price reductions. I can't help but feel that I got really fucked by poor timing that I couldn't control. It would hurt so much less if these price changes were more gradual and somewhat consistent (perhaps monthly).

Well, I bought a 3-year reserved heavy utilization plan just a couple of hours before these news went live. My pain is about 2 orders of magnitude less than yours, though. I wonder if you can contact someone at Amazon and ask for some kind of discount.

Anyway, what a massive drop in price and what a swift reaction from Amazon. Competition can really do wonders. I just hope we won't be seeing drops in the level of service.

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by darkarmani »

chris_mahan wrote: post #32

Remember, 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.

> Remember, you get what (the reliability, service) you pay for.

So, pay extra for the support contract?

Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by SeoxyS »

Whoops, sounds like bitter (but still good) news for companies like ours that have million-dollar contracts of reserved instances. If we were to grab our reserved instances right now instead of a few months ago, we'd have saved more than half a million over the next year. Bleh.
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