Amazon Web Services Announce Price Cut

Last Wednesday (on June 29, 2011), Amazon Web Services, which provides various web optimization tools including the CloudFront Content Delivery Network and the Amazon cloud offerings, announced a newer and cheaper bandwidth charges for their customers. These new prices were made effective from the same Friday, i.e. July 1, 2011.

Amazon mentioned that it had been continuously working on reducing the prices for their customers and this was one more significant cut that they had declared over the last 4 years. Among the major price correction measures was the fact that Amazon would stop billing the customers for uploading content, something similar to what Microsoft announced for Azure recently. Apart from this, additional tiers for usage ranges 1PB, 5PB and more than 5PB were added to provide further benefit to customers with mammoth usage.

Amazon also mentioned that it dropped some charges on its CloudFront offering, and added new tiers to different regions to provide its customers significant savings by reducing their bandwidth charges by as high as 40-50%.

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