AWS cuts cloud data transfer fees for academic and research user groups

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Caroline Donnelly.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has agreed to waive some charges the academic and research community must pay to transfer data out of its cloud. As such, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company is offering to wipe up to 15% off users’ monthly bill on AWS services, and dropping the upload charges when researchers and scientists choose to shift data between its storage, compute and database services.

In a blog post outlining the move, AWS said it wanted to lower the cost barrier to making scientific discoveries. “The pace of research is no longer limited by the availability of computing resources. Researchers are beginning to rely on cloud computing to drive breakthrough science at breakneck speeds, and AWS wants to fuel the pace of new discoveries by making it possible for all scientists to have their own supercomputers in the cloud,” the company said in the blog post…

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