{"id":809,"date":"2016-01-06T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=809"},"modified":"2018-07-05T16:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T20:59:53","slug":"aws-price-cuts-ec2-price-reduction-for-c4-m4-and-r3-instances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/aws-price-cuts-ec2-price-reduction-for-c4-m4-and-r3-instances\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Price-Cuts: EC2 Price Reduction for C4, M4, and R3 Instances"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AWScloudworld\"Cloud infrastructure giant<\/a> Amazon Web Services announced yet another round of price cuts for a few of its virtual machine instances, as consumers happily wait to see how thing cloud IaaS margins can get.<\/p>\n

VMs affected by the price cuts are Amazon\u2019s R3, C4, and M4 \u00a0instances for its EC2 Cloud IaaS.<\/p>\n

M4 general purpose instances are the newest<\/a> instance type for its EC2 cloud computing<\/a> service and offer a balance of compute, memory and network resources well-suited for a variety of purposes, available in five sizes with up to 40 vCPUs and 160 GiB of system memory.<\/p>\n

Price cuts should come as no surprise to those closely following the cloud IaaS market, AWS and its co-belligerents, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and to a lesser extent IBM, have been fighting a prolonged price war over cloud IaaS for several\u00a0years. The continued lowering of cloud computing prices have pushed some tech pundits to speculate whether the tech giants are making any money on cloud services, but, if recent figures<\/a> disclosed by Amazon are any indication, cloud profits are stronger than ever, and there could be room for further shrinking of margins as competitors strive to challenge AWS for the top spot.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the breakdown of the price changes, via a blog post<\/a> from AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr:<\/p>\n