AWS price change, published 2021-05-28
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud price list, published 2021-05-28: 513 cuts
On 2021-05-28, AWS published a version of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud price list that changed 513 existing list prices in 1 region: 513 cuts and 0 increases. Effective May 2021. The median like-for-like change was −0.07% (−2.38% to −0.01%).
Service code AmazonEC2, price list version 20210528235622. 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 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU (Ireland) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), r5n.large reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.042 | $0.041 | −2.38% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | R5N Dedicated Host Reservation hours used this month | Reserved 1yr NoUpfront | $5.648 | $5.555 | −1.65% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | R5N Dedicated Host Reservation hours used this month | Reserved 1yr PartialUpfront | $2.689 | $2.645 | −1.64% | 3 |
| EU (Ireland) | Windows (Amazon VPC), r5n.large reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.088 | $0.087 | −1.14% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux with SQL Server Web (Amazon VPC), r5n.large reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.098 | $0.097 | −1.02% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Amazon VPC), r5n.large reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.102 | $0.101 | −0.98% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Windows with SQL Server Web (Amazon VPC), r5n.large reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.144 | $0.143 | −0.69% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux with SQL Server Web (Amazon VPC), r5n.large reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr No Upfront | $0.157 | $0.156 | −0.64% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux with SQL Server Web (Amazon VPC), r5n.xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr No Upfront | $0.246 | $0.245 | −0.41% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Windows with SQL Server Web (Amazon VPC), r5n.large reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr No Upfront | $0.249 | $0.248 | −0.40% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), r5n.xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.267 | $0.266 | −0.37% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux with SQL Server Standard (Amazon VPC), r5n.large reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.282 | $0.281 | −0.35% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Amazon VPC), r5n.xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr No Upfront | $0.327 | $0.326 | −0.31% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), r5n.4xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.333 | $0.332 | −0.30% | 2 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), r5n.2xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr No Upfront | $0.356 | $0.355 | −0.28% | 1 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), r5n.16xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $1.331 | $1.328 | −0.23% | 4 |
| EU (Ireland) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Amazon VPC), r5n.4xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.463 | $0.462 | −0.22% | 2 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux with SQL Server Web (Amazon VPC), r5n.4xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.468 | $0.467 | −0.21% | 9 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), r5n.12xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr Partial Upfront | $0.998 | $0.996 | −0.20% | 11 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), r5n.12xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr No Upfront | $2.136 | $2.132 | −0.19% | 10 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), r5n.16xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr No Upfront | $2.848 | $2.843 | −0.18% | 8 |
| EU (Ireland) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Amazon VPC), r5n.16xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr No Upfront | $2.978 | $2.973 | −0.17% | 2 |
| EU (Ireland) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Amazon VPC), r5n.4xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 1yr Partial Upfront | $0.64 | $0.639 | −0.16% | 2 |
| EU (Ireland) | Linux with SQL Server Web (Amazon VPC), r5n.16xlarge reserved instance applied | Reserved 3yr No Upfront | $3.93 | $3.924 | −0.15% | 11 |
| EU (Ireland) | $0.708 per Dedicated Linux r5n.2xlarge Instance Hour | On-Demand | $0.709 | $0.708 | −0.14% | 22 |
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