How many times has AWS dropped prices?

Pricing Reduction Regular price cuts on all our services has been a standard way for AWS to pass on the economic efficiencies gained from our scale back to our customers. As of April this year, AWS has reduced prices 107 times since it was launched in 2006.

What is the most expensive EC2 instance?

The most expensive Amazon EC2 is currently the p3dn. 24xlarge which costs $31.212 USD per hour when running a Linux OS and $35.628 per hour when running the Window OS on the instance in the US East (N. Virginia) region. The instance comes with 96 vCPUs, 768 GiB of RAM and two 900 GB NVMe SSDs.

What is a price reduction?

Definitions of price reduction. the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise. synonyms: deduction, discount. type of: decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down. the act of decreasing or reducing something.

How many times has AWS publicly reduced its pricing across services?

I went digging into the AWS landscape to find the answers and here is what I found. AWS has publicly reduced its pricing across various services 62 or 65 times depending on who you ask or what metric you utilize.

When was the last time Amazon S3 pricing was reduced?

Looking at all the price reductions, I normalized all the data from 2006 through the last reduction in March 2014. To do this I have to look at the current S3 Tiers and apply them retroactively to the pricing from the past which provided the pricing regardless of the tiers in use at the time.

Is there a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud?

It is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers who plan to use Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying new RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able […]

Is AWS ever going to be cheaper?

What I see in that data is that AWS … has never increased prices, but has not always made it cheaper decreases costs in specific set of tiers (e.g. mid volume or high volume) most of the time drove down their internal costs in 2008, 2012, and 2014 to provide the highest discounts