AWS price change, published 2016-01-26
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud price list, published 2016-01-26: 10,671 cuts
On 2016-01-26, AWS published a version of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud price list that changed 10,671 existing list prices in 10 regions: 10,671 cuts and 0 increases. Effective Jan 2016. The median like-for-like change was −3.75% (−12.20% to −0.03%).
Service code AmazonEC2, price list version 20160126001708. Cuts and increases count like-for-like changes only: same unit, both prices above $0, and within 11x either way.
What changed
One line per movement: prices in this publication that changed by the same percentage are one line, with one example and the number of prices. Like-for-like moves come first, largest first, then changes that are not like-for-like. Showing the first 25 of 627 lines. Large percentages often come from a very small old price; read the description and both prices.
| Region (example) | AWS description | Term | Old | New | Change | Prices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) | $0.252 per Dedicated Usage Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.287 | $0.252 | −12.20% | 2 |
| EU (Ireland) | $0.265 per Dedicated Usage Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.301 | $0.265 | −11.96% | 1 |
| EU (Frankfurt) | $0.277 per Dedicated Usage Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.314 | $0.277 | −11.78% | 1 |
| US West (N. California) | $0.274 per Dedicated Usage Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.31 | $0.274 | −11.61% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | $0.311 per Dedicated Usage Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.35 | $0.311 | −11.14% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | $0.305 per Dedicated Usage Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.343 | $0.305 | −11.08% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | $0.316 per Dedicated Usage Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.354 | $0.316 | −10.73% | 1 |
| US West (N. California) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), c4.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.154 | $0.14 | −9.09% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), c4.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.165 | $0.151 | −8.48% | 1 |
| US East (N. Virginia) | $0.24 per On Demand Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.261 | $0.24 | −8.05% | 2 |
| EU (Ireland) | $0.252 per On Demand Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.274 | $0.252 | −8.03% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), m4.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.05 | $0.046 | −8.00% | 2 |
| US West (N. California) | $0.26 per On Demand Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.282 | $0.26 | −7.80% | 1 |
| EU (Frankfurt) | $0.263 per On Demand Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.285 | $0.263 | −7.72% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), c4.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.052 | $0.048 | −7.69% | 5 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), r3.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.212 | $0.196 | −7.55% | 4 |
| US East (N. Virginia) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), c4.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.04 | $0.037 | −7.50% | 4 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | $0.298 per On Demand Windows with SQL Web m4.large Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.322 | $0.298 | −7.45% | 1 |
| EU (Frankfurt) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), r3.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.209 | $0.194 | −7.18% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), r3.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.196 | $0.182 | −7.14% | 2 |
| AWS GovCloud (US) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), r3.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.184 | $0.171 | −7.07% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), m4.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.073 | $0.068 | −6.85% | 1 |
| US West (N. California) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), c4.xlarge instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.267 | $0.249 | −6.74% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), c4.large instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.15 | $0.14 | −6.67% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), c4.xlarge instance-hours used this month | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.289 | $0.27 | −6.57% | 1 |
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