
With nine AWS Regions in operation (and more in the works), you can already build global applications that have a presence in two or more Regions. Pricing for the M3 instances in the Regions where they are newly available already reflect the economies of scale that allowed us to make the reductions that we are announcing today.Īs usual, your AWS bill will automatically reflect the lower prices. Here are the reductions, by family and by Region: The size of the reductions vary, but generally average 10-20%. This reduction applies to all members of the M1 (First Generation Standard), M2 (High Memory), M3 (Second Generation Standard), and C1 (High-CPU) families. We are reducing the price of On-Demand Amazon EC2 instances running Linux world-wide, effective February 1, 2013. We plan to make the M3 instances available in the South America (Brazil) Region in the coming weeks. I’m pleased to announce that you can now launch M3 instances in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. All instances are 64-bit and are optimized for applications such as media encoding, batch processing, caching, and web serving. Also known as the Second Generation Standard Instances, members of the M3 family (Extra Large and Double Extra Large) feature up to 50% higher absolute CPU performance than their predecessors. We launched the M3 family of EC2 instances last fall, with initial availability in the US East (Northern Virginia) Region.

EC2’s M3 instance family is now available in all AWS Regions including AWS GovCloud (US).

To that end, I have three important announcements: We continue to work to make AWS more powerful and less expensive, and to pass the savings on to you.
