Amazon announced their 51st price drop of 5% for On-Demand and Reserved instance, and Dedicated host prices for C4 and M4 instances running Linux in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo),Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions.
The price drops include On-Demand, Reserved instance, and Dedicated host prices for R3 instances running Linux in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (Brazil) regions.
R3 instances for both On-Demand and Reserved instances running Linux in the AWS GovCloud (US)region will also be cheaper.
Smaller reductions apply to the same instance types that run Windows, SLES, and RHEL. Changes to the On-Demand and Dedicated host pricing are retroactive to the beginning of the month (January 1, 2016); the new Reserved instance pricing go into effect Jan 5th 2016. Read the official press release from Amazon.
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