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> some tradeoff has to be made to increase some of the stats but not the price I disagree. According to Wikipedia, it's been six years since EC2 launched. Si
by csense 14y ago
> some tradeoff has to be made to increase some of the stats but not the price
I disagree. According to Wikipedia, it's been six years since EC2 launched. Since 2006-equivalent hardware is much cheaper in 2012 due to Moore's Law, (or alternatively the specs you can buy with a given number of dollars in 2012 is much better than it was in 2006), and since the original EC2 machines have probably been in service long enough to generate sufficient revenue to recover their upfront investment and make a profit, it wouldn't be unreasonable for Amazon to start retiring those old machines and use the better price/performance point of new hardware as a business justification to give customers some combination of price breaks and spec upgrades.
- saurik 14y agoThat would make sense across the board; in this case, you have to just compare the price point between different current offerings; these new instance types are similarly priced yet with higher specs in some areas, and I will argue that it is a tradeoff against the disks. If you feel like Amazon should be cheaper overall due to Moore's law (and remember: they have lowered their prices numerous times since they launched on everything from hardware to bandwidth), then the price of the things we are comparing to would also be cheaper (as these are all just virtualized subsets of larger machines).