Effective November 1, 2009, the following per-hour prices will be in effect for Amazon EC2:
| US | EU | |||||
| Linux | Windows | SQL | Linux | Windows | SQL | |
| m1.small | $0.085 | $0.12 | $0.095 | $0.13 | ||
| m1.large | $0.34 | $0.48 | $1.08 | $0.38 | $0.52 | $1.12 |
| m1.xlarge | $0.68 | $0.96 | $1.56 | $0.76 | $1.04 | $1.64 |
| c1.medium | $0.17 | $0.29 | $0.19 | $0.31 | ||
| c1.xlarge | $0.68 | $1.16 | $2.36 | $0.76 | $1.24 | $2.44 |
This represents a reduction of up to 15% from the current prices for Linux instances and is a direct result of our policy of working non-stop to drive our operating costs down for the benefit of our customers. This does not affect the price of our two new instance types.
This isn't the first time we've lowered our prices in order to make AWS an even better value. In the past we've done this by adding tiered pricing to Amazon S3, reducing the storage and processing charges for SimpleDB, reducing the per-request pricing for SQS, and reducing bandwidth pricing for all services.
We've also reduced the prices for a number of IBM platform technologies. Take a look at&Amazon Running IBMfor a complete list of what we have to offer, along with the new prices.
Update: The first version of this post had the wrong prices for the SQL Server m1.large instances.
-- Jeff;
Why no reduction in the price of the Windows instances? It seems the hardware costs are the same, so it should have gone down the same amount, to $0.105/hour for small, etc.
Posted by: Anon | October 27, 2009 at 01:27 AM
Is it possible to lease a Linux instance, and install Windows as virtualized instance? Right now the gap between Linux and Windows is almost 50%, I would get an instance but I cant justify the price difference for myself
Posted by: Slava Kuznetsov | October 27, 2009 at 08:48 AM
"Why no reduction in the price of the Windows instances?"
OS licensing comes to mind.
Posted by: anon | October 27, 2009 at 09:51 AM
> "Why no reduction in the price of the Windows instances?"
> OS licensing comes to mind.
Unless Microsoft just raised the licensing costs, it now appears Amazon makes more money on Windows instances than Linux instances.
Posted by: anon | October 27, 2009 at 09:39 PM
What about reserved instances? Are those permanently fixed, or could we potentially see that pricing drop in the future?
Posted by: Corey Gilmore | October 28, 2009 at 06:42 PM
What about those that have bought a reserved instance? Do we get the pro-rated reduction for these instances? Or remained locked to the earlier price?
Posted by: Panos Ipeirotis | October 28, 2009 at 08:18 PM