(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In what is expected to spur even more development on its cloud platform, Amazon has lowered its Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) pricing for outbound data transfer by $0.02 across all its services, usage tiers, and regions.
Effective February 1, 2010, the new outbound data transfer pricing (with some exceptions) is $0.15 per GB for the first 10 TB per month, $0.11 per GB for the next 40 TB, $0.09 per GB for the next 100 TB, and $0.08 per GB for more than 150 TB.
“As you know, we are constantly working to drive our costs down and become more operationally efficient,” the company said in a statement. “We then pass on those cost savings to our customers in the form of lower prices.”
Amazon’s cloud powers many services in the hosting industry with infrastructure service offerings including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), SimpleDB, Simple Storage Service (S3), CloudFront, Simple Queue Service (SQS), Elastic MapReduce and Relational Database Service (RDS).
The price model for content delivery service CloudFront, which now supports both static and streaming media content, is a little more complex because it continues to have its own outbound data transfer pricing schedule in order to offer the lowest possible rates for each edge location, however, it has reduced its outbound data transfer prices by $0.02 per GB across all edge locations and for each usage tier.
