Amazon Web Services Lowers Data Transfer Prices

February 2, 2010

Working hard to remain the leader in cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Amazon took another step at reducing prices for customers. This is just one step of many that Amazon has taken “to drive [their] costs down and become more operationally efficient.”

Yesterday, Amazon announced that the company is lowering outbound data transfers by 2 cents per gigabyte across the board. With this change, the new data transfer prices for EC2, S3, and several other services for lower-volume customers will be US$0.15 cents/GB and will be US$0.08 cents/GB for users with higher data transfer volumes. Revised pricing for CloudFront will range from US$0.03/GB to US$0.15/GB.

Earlier this year, Amazon announced that it would not charge for inbound data transfers in an attempt, it would appear to attract customers to its service. The company has also reduced the prices over the past year on server instances, including reserved instance pricing.