Amazon slashed cloud service prices 18% as it rolls out new high-memory instance types following third outage in two years
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Brandon Butler, Network World November 01, 2012 02:28 PM ET
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Amazon Web Services, fresh off an outage that brought down big-name sites such as Reddit and Imgur, today announced an 18% price reduction for its virtual machines, the 21st time the leading infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor has dropped prices since launching its cloud in 2006.
In addition to the price drop, AWS released a new series of Elastic Cloud Compute instances with high input/output (I/O) qualities. They're optimized, AWS says, for media encoding, batch processing, caching and Web serving. The extra-large instance (m3.xlarge) comes with 15GB of memory and 13 ECU -- which are Amazon compute units -- across four virtual cores. A double extra-large instance has 30GB of memory with 26 ECUs on eight virtual cores. The service debuted in the Northern Virginia US-East region, but AWS plans to roll it out to other regions early next year.
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