Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services Cuts Prices For Linux Users
March 6, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
Amazon Web Services Monday reduced its prices on its lowest cost option, reserved instances, by "up to 27%." That means a reserved instance virtual server may cost 65% less than the comparable on-demand instance running on the AWS EC2 infrastructure at $0.06 per hour.
One effect of the move is to reinforce the perception that it’s much cheaper to run Linux than Windows on EC2. Amazon has been wary of Microsoft as a potent competitor with its Windows Server and Visual Studio tools in Windows Azure…
The 65% cheaper distinction applies only to virtual servers running Linux/Unix. A small or M1 standard virtual server, which comes with 1.7 GB of memory and CPU equal to an early 2006 Xeon processor, requires a $61 upfront payment and is available at a rate of $0.034 per hour. The comparable-sized Windows server requires a $69 upfront payment, after which it is available for $0.059 per hour. Both of these small servers fall into the one-year, "light" utilization category of reserved instances…
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