From InfoWorld: Amazon is lowering the price of its Web-based virtual servers and has bolstered its cloud services with a new relational database and a set of high-memory virtual server instances. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) offers customers a variety of virtual server configurations, with prices ranging from 10 cents to $1 per hour. But the company is "lowering prices on all Amazon EC2 On-Demand compute instances, effective on Nov. 1," Amazon announced Tuesday. "Charges for Linux-based instances will drop 15 percent -- a small Linux instance will now cost just 8.5 cents per hour, compared with the previous price of 10 cents per hour." Windows-based instances will get a smaller price cut. For example, a small Windows instance that cost 12.5 cents per hour will cost 12 cents per hour beginning Nov. 1. A large Windows instance that cost $1 per hour will get a price cut to 96 cents.While announcing the price cut on standard-sized virtual servers, Amazon said it will offer a new set of high-memory virtual servers offering double and quadruple the memory over the previous largest option. Prices will range from $1.20 to $2.88 per hour. "High-Memory Instances are designed to be used with memory-intensive workloads such as databases, caching and rendering, and are optimized for low-latency, high-throughput performance," Amazon announced. View: Article @ Source Site |