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Amazon lowered the price of Linux instances by 15% in November 2009 (from 10 cents/hr to 8.5 cents/hr). Source: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/e
by byoung2 16y ago
Amazon lowered the price of Linux instances by 15% in November 2009 (from 10 cents/hr to 8.5 cents/hr). Source: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=3055&categoryID=42 http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex...
If that doesn't seem like much, you also have to consider that other costs of providing the service may increase to offset hardware savings due to Moore's law. Think of the networking hardware, energy required to cool the datacenter, bandwidth, HVAC repair and maintenance, real estate, staffing, insurance. These costs are not likely to decrease at the same rate as computer hardware costs, and some, like rent and payroll actually increase.
- andrewstuart 16y agoI'd prefer more computing power to lower costs.
- byoung2 16y agoWith cloud computing, lower costs = more computing power. If you were running 20 instances before, with the 15% reduction in price, you can now run 23 for the same price.
- charlesju 16y agoThe whole point of the cloud is that you pay for a set amount of computing power. If you want more computing power get the high CPU instance. Everything is virtualized down to the incremental unit of computing power that is desirable. It's pretty optimal in my opinion and I really appreciate the price decreases overtime.