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EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)

7 pointsby jeffbarrover 8 years ago

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grapehutover 8 years ago
Fantastic, and nice to see them bringing down the Asian instance prices too.<p>One thing I really wish they did however, is adopt Google&#x27;s &quot;Continuous Usage&quot; billing. There&#x27;s just too much mental overhead, uncertainty and risk with buying and reselling reserved instances. I end up losing hundreds of dollars a year in potential savings on AWS because I have a bad habbit of shying away from fully reserving my usage.<p>And then when I do, I always seem to get bitten. Case in point: a few weeks ago I reserved 1 year of heavy usage for a m4.xlarge. Looks like I could&#x27;ve saved 10% had I waited a few weeks.<p>That said, I do prefer the AWS ecosystem a lot more than Googles, but billing is something Google does _much_ better and that is something that is something that is really tempting me to switch.