AWS price change, published 2018-05-02
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud price list, published 2018-05-02: 837 cuts, 2 increases
On 2018-05-02, AWS published a version of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud price list that changed 839 existing list prices in 2 regions: 837 cuts and 2 increases. Effective Apr 2018. The median like-for-like change was −5.30% (−28.72% to +85.23%).
Service code AmazonEC2, price list version 20180502184240. 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 458 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS GovCloud (US) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr All Upfront | $7,436 | $13,774 | +85.23% | 1 |
| AWS GovCloud (US) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr All Upfront | $9,835 | $13,817 | +40.49% | 1 |
| AWS GovCloud (US) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $6,932 | $4,941 | −28.72% | 1 |
| AWS GovCloud (US) | Windows with SQL Server Standard (Amazon VPC), r3.xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.791 | $0.564 | −28.70% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Windows BYOL (Amazon VPC), m5.large reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.04 | $0.034 | −15.00% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m5.2xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.378 | $0.323 | −14.55% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m5.12xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.997 | $0.853 | −14.44% | 2 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Windows BYOL (Amazon VPC), m5.24xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $1.733 | $1.483 | −14.43% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m5.12xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.867 | $0.742 | −14.42% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m5.24xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $4.185 | $3.582 | −14.41% | 8 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m5.12xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $1.083 | $0.927 | −14.40% | 10 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m5.12xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.953 | $0.816 | −14.38% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $696 | $596 | −14.37% | 2 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m5.2xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.181 | $0.155 | −14.36% | 2 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr All Upfront | $683 | $585 | −14.35% | 2 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), m5.24xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $1.746 | $1.496 | −14.32% | 2 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m5.4xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.664 | $0.569 | −14.31% | 3 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), m5.4xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.755 | $0.647 | −14.30% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), m5.24xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $3.672 | $3.148 | −14.27% | 2 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $17,635 | $15,120 | −14.26% | 2 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $15,358 | $13,170 | −14.25% | 2 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $316 | $271 | −14.24% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC), m5.12xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $2.299 | $1.973 | −14.18% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr All Upfront | $16,686 | $14,324 | −14.16% | 1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | Upfront Fee | Reserved 1yr All Upfront | $35,358 | $30,428 | −13.94% | 1 |
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