Amazon EC2...Amazing Cloud....

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows enterprises to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides enterprises with complete control of their computing resources that run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing enterprises to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as the enterprise's computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing enterprises to pay only for capacity actually used. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

On-Demand Instances Pricing

Amazon EC2 On-DEmand Instances Pricing


Reserved Instances Pricing



Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances Pricing

Spot Instances Pricing
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Pricing
Spot Instances pricing fluctuates periodically depending on the supply of and demand for Spot Instance capacity. The illustration below takes a snapshot pricing for the EU Region at Wednesday January 13 10:28:06 UTC 2010.

Internet Data Transfer Pricing

The pricing below is based on data transferred "in" and "out" of Amazon EC2.

There is no Data Transfer charge between Amazon EC2 and other Amazon Web Services within the same region (i.e. between Amazon EC2 US West and Amazon S3 in US West). Data transferred between Amazon EC2 instances located in different Availability Zones in the same Region will be charged Regional Data Transfer. Data transferred between AWS services in different regions will be charged as Internet Data Transfer on both sides of the transfer.

Amazon Internet Data Transfer Pricing



Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Pricing


AWS Import/Export Service

AWS now offers physical data import/export service makes it easy to quickly transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. It is an economical alternative to sending large volumes of data across the Internet. The AWS Import/Export service allow 2TB of data to be imported or exported globally from AWS S3. With that service, customers can send Amazon a blank storage device and Amazon will copy the contents of one or more Amazon S3 buckets to it before shipping it back. Alternatively, customers can send Amazon a storage device full of data that Amazon will copy it to the S3 buckets of the customer's choice. Customers can use AWS Import/Export for:

· Data Migration
· Offsite Backup
· Direct Data Interchange
· Disaster Recovery