Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Amazon Reduces S3, EC2 Pricing

Amazon.com is reducing the prices companies pay for using the firm's web-based services, Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2, the firm said Tuesday. According to Amazon, it is reducing the price of its S3 storage service at the 500TB and 1PB and 5PB levels. The firm said the pricing reduces costs by more than 15% for multi-petabyte customers, and by more than 50% in the U.S. and EU regions for large customers. On the EC2 front, the firm said it is lowering the price of Amazon EC2 Windows and SQL Server instances in the EU (Ireland) region by more than 5%. Amazon said the storage pricing reduction came as the number of customers storing large amount of data in the service has increased; reasons for the drop in prices in the EU (Ireland) region was not given.