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A comment on EC2's M3 Instances Go Global; Reduced EC2 Charges and Lower Bandwidth Prices.

Re:EC2's M3 Instances Go Global; Reduced EC2 Charges and Low... by ceejayoz on Friday February 01, 2013 @08:55AM (#5150656)
The massive drop in inter-region pricing is going to be really nice for folks running apps with failover to other regions. We're working on cross-region replication for our new infrastructure, so this comes at a perfect time for us...
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Re:EC2's M3 Instances Go Global; Reduced EC2 Charges and Low... by No1 on Friday February 01, 2013 @12:27PM (#5152061)
This drop in inter-region data transfer prices is huge, and frankly, long overdue. Distributing across regions might actually be viable for companies that don't have money coming out of their ears.
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Re:EC2's M3 Instances Go Global; Reduced EC2 Charges and Low... by jcastro on Friday February 01, 2013 @11:03AM (#5151463)
It's a nice incentive to get people to fail over across regions so when US East goes down again your application has less of a chance of embarrassing them. :)
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