Comments on: Amazon Web Services Rolls Out New Pricing Model For EC2

By: Tomas Sancio

Tomas Sancio — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:30:19 +0000

Although I find the service great and relatively easy to use, Amazon should include the cost per operation in its usage detail. I got billed and still don’t know how much I am paying for each item. Anyway, I hope they’ll add this soon.

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By: Valentin

Valentin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:51:46 +0000

what I missed: “how long do i have to run an instance to amortize the one-time-fee?” the answer: a little less than 194 days (computed for 1yr term, standard instance, linux; not counting any cost of capital). And as others have noted, if you run the same instance for a year you’ll save a little less than 33%.

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SQL Server and Cloud Links for the Week | Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:16:16 +0000

[...] Amazon EC2 pricing changes – if you’re willing to commit to a year in advance, you can get cheaper pricing. Neat option for disaster recovery, and I’ll be blogging more about using EC2 for SQL Server log shipping as the SSWUG V-Conference approaches. [...]

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By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:45:31 +0000

Competition and innovation form the magic that is capitalism, the consumer automatically wins due to the profit motive of businesses. This is one of the fist larger scale applications of cloud computing open to the "general public" that I've seen. Cloud computing does come with its own security risks though, many of which have been discussed here at tech crunch. That's why I frequent this* security site.

By: Nuno

Nuno — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:26:20 +0000

As usual, prices go down for consumer’s sake.

This is really great!

By: conversion

conversion — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:08:09 +0000

Prices keep going down, down, down, thanks in part to the competition. Lots of opportunity in this exciting space.

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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:30:39 +0000

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By: ChrisATSo33t

ChrisATSo33t — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:12:38 +0000

For example 1 small server virtual image on Amazon is .10 an hour, so 2.40 a day or $72 per month.

Our service will be ~$40 per month for a small virtual image that can be hypervised with several others.

So once that one time fee is paid, all metering is turned off for the entire month. You can reserve and prepay as many months as you’d like. And you will be able to shut down your images and reboot them from the web. Unmetered.

Please give us a shot when we’re up and running.

By: MicroCopyMachine

MicroCopyMachine — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:55:28 +0000

Based on recent Microsoft copying, I’d say Amazon is in the safe zone. When Microsoft takes the iPod and spits out a Zune, well, do you own one?

By: ChrisATSo33t

ChrisATSo33t — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:32:27 +0000

I didn’t specify the cloud services.

specifically, you will be able to prepay monthly for virtual server images of your choice to be spawned on

up to:
60TB
20 2.6Ghz Xeons
120GB RAM
115MBPS – no metering, burstable*

No region to region data transfer fees(we have 1 region right now). No on LAN data transfer fees on the switch.

Since we do not have a good Windows hypervisor, nor care to support it, this will be limited to Solaris and Linux.

* extra cost

By: ChrisATSo33t

ChrisATSo33t — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:46:59 +0000

We’ll also be offering video, and messaging CDN solutions as well as advanced telephony systems based on GPS, enterprise LDAP and easy software deployment and enterprise resource management, via mobile.

By: ChrisATSo33t

ChrisATSo33t — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:44:39 +0000

coupon code: UNMETERED-FREEDOM

- 10% at Soeet CDN, and cloud computing store.

Your prepaid use will be unmetered at cdn.Soeet.com

We have a large cluster of dual Xeon servers loaded with massive HDDs and RAM for your enjoyment.

CDN customers will just have to add a DNS A record for http://www.mydomain.com to point to our CDN server, and pay a small fee to start using it.

We’re also including a free easy to use control panel and are working on an API for web storage.

ETA 2 weeks until you can immediately use the services at minimal cost.

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By: Hareem Haque

Hareem Haque — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:31:06 +0000

@John.

Really…. last time i checked.. only gogrid was there to cause them trouble. They are good but for instant scalability they are not the best.

The only other vendor that beats out EC2 is 3tera with their applogic product. However, its designed for really high end enterprise usage. So prices are not from this world.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:12:50 +0000

@John Starting at $0.015 per hour….

http://gigaom.com/2009/03/12/rackspace-wants-to-ground-its-cloud/

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:45:23 +0000

cdn.soeet.com is opening in 2 weeks.

cloud computing services will be offered as well as CDN.

Prices will be half that of it’s competitors, and bandwidth and storage will be extreme. If you are interested check that url in 2 weeks. It will be worth your wait.

By: laughing

laughing — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:39:55 +0000

@John – You beat me to it! :)

By: John Treadway

John Treadway — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:37:25 +0000

@Dror – such as?

By: Dror

Dror — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:05:38 +0000

This is all very nice, but s3 and EC2 have had the same price for the last 2-3 years. Prices of CPUs and disks have been coming down since then. Amazon’s pricing needs to reflect that or people will start moving to more competitive solutions.