Amazon Web Services is making some major changes to how it charges for reserved EC2 instances — a move that seems to be at least partially motivated by the changes Google announced earlier this year.

This was originally published at ZDNet's Between the Lines. Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise-friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT ...

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Amazon is lowering prices for reserve instances of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services to entice more enterprises to sign up for longer-term deals. The reserve instances were a big deal in March ...

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Google Cloud is back in the news – this time with an assault on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. Continuing its commitment to Moore’s law, Google has also dropped the price of its IaaS offering by 40%.

Around six years ago, Amazon introduced an EC2 usage option at very low costs: Spot Instances. With EC2 Spot Instances, you can save money, but there’s a catch – they won’t necessarily be available ...

Amazon today announced a massive new instance type for its AWS EC2 compute service. The new X1 instances will feature 2 terabytes of memory. That’s a huge increase from what was previously EC2’s ...