EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances)

Re:EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances) by nodesocket on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:28AM (#12956480)

Arggg, does not apply to west coast instances (us-west-1 and us-west-2).

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Re:EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances) by gtsteve on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:25AM (#12956709)

Asking as an ignorant foreigner: Does anyone know what makes us-west more expensive than us-east? Is it just land or electricity prices or something like that?

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Re:EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances) by fulafel on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:19AM (#12956914)

It's near rich SV customers, so maybe customer value due to latency?

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Re:EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances) by ccannon on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:14AM (#12957664)

Our Amazon rep tells us it's all about the cost of electricity.

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Re:EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances) by late2part on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:43AM (#12958350)

11c/kWh in bay area, 6c/kWh in Oregon and Nevada. Old data here but salient: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/10/27/141766341/the-p...

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Re:EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances) by virtuallynathan on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:24AM (#12959384)

I think it does -- "Price cuts apply across all AWS Regions."

The regions listed were just examples. Check back Dec 1.

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