Since Amazon launched its public cloud service in 2006 it has lowered the cost of using the platform 30 times. The gradual reduction in the price of renting virtualised servers and storage through its ...

Amazon has dropped its EC2 cloud computing services prices for the 26th time, as the cloud giant continues to pass on the savings from its ever-growing expansion back to its customers. The company ...

The price drop follows AWS reducing the cost of its CloudFront offering in June and a previous AWS price drop in February that included Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon RDS ...

Amazon Web Services is making some major changes to how it charges for reserved EC2 instances — a move that seems to be at least partially motivated by the changes Google announced earlier this year.

After my previous post, “Cloud to boost proprietary software use?,” Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of “WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly.” JBoss’ Rich ...

This was originally published at ZDNet's Between the Lines. Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise-friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT ...

In its latest round of price cuts, Amazon Web Services this week has reduced the cost of its EC2 Dedicated Instances by up to 80 percent. Amazon introduced EC2 Dedicated Instances over two years ago.