Amazon Web Services Ringing In More Changes.
Posted in Hosting by DB
Some more good news for all Amazon EC2 and S3 users. Amazon has announced that they are slashing bandwidth charges effective May 1st 2008. You can read more about the exact price difference in here.
Amazon seem to be rolling out quite a few improvements and changes over the past month. First it was Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones. Amazon followed that up with AWS Premium support, a paid support agreement between Amazon and it’s web service clients. Amazon Web Service users can choose to pay for Silver or Gold level support. The latest from the Amazon stable is the drop in data transfer pricing.
While all these are great, I cannot help wondering if Google’s latest foray into cloud computing space seem to have been the trigger for some of these changes / improvements from Amazon. It is astonishing what good serious competition will do. Ah well, the customer always benefits when there is competition so I’m looking forward to more from these two. It is refreshing to see Amazon take Google very seriously and not rest on their laurels.
On a completely unrelated note, some of you might have noticed a new addition to the sidebar. Since this blog is all about web hosting and as I initially promised I will start to list website hosting plans that are currently being offered by some of the more illustrious web hosting companies out there. By aggregating these hosting plans into a single section I’m hoping many of you will find it useful and a time saver.
I will be adding more categories and more features in the future. I also plan to add a feedback or review hosting plan feature. Until that is done please use the contact form to send me details of your experience with a particular hosting plan or web hosting company. Because this particular feature is generally the target and most abused by spammers, I will be getting in touch with the reviewer to be completely satisfied that the hosting review is genuine. So please make sure to include your contact information along with your hosting review.
Have fun browsing through the list of web hosting plans. I would love to hear from you on this latest addition to website hosting plans, tips and optimization tricks.
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