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Last week was action packed with AWS rolling out several big changes to its pricing. The limelight was however stolen by DynamoDB and KeySpaces. The prices for DynamoDB on-demand throughput were reduced by 50% and global tables by up to 67%. Along with this, Amazon Keyspaces also announced price reduction by up to 75%.
There have been several similar announcements made by AWS in last few weeks and there is a clear pattern emerging from all of these. A few weeks ago, AWS Elasticache launched Valkey and it was priced almost 30% cheaper than the Redis counterpart. I wrote about it here. A couple of weeks ago, AWS made all CloudFront requests blocked by AWS WAF free of charge. Then came this news where AWS waived off subscription fee per configured user and couple of other costs in AWS DataZone service.
All of these announcements are unlike the usual cost optimisation avenues that AWS usually opens up by technologically advancing its products and passing on some discounts to the customers. These are plain price reductions and probably hints at a bigger price war brewing between the titans of cloud computing. We should be ready for more such reductions in near future.
Regardless of how these announcements impact AWS and its competitors, it’s an exciting time for the customers.
News of the Week
Stack Overflow is migrating its data centers to the cloud(GCP) due to the closure of its New York data center, aging hardware, and maintenance distractions. The transition will provide flexibility, scalability, and improved development workflows but at a higher cost. Stack Overflow is taking an incremental approach to reduce risk, beginning with simpler applications and gradually moving all platforms, with a focus on leveraging Kubernetes and automated infrastructure management.
We’re (finally!) going to the cloud!
Official AWS
Amazon DynamoDB reduces prices for on-demand throughtput and global tables.
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) reduces prices by up to 75%.
AWS SDK now supports ListBillingViewsAPI for AWS Billing conductor users.
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) reduces prices by up to 75%.
AWS IVS introduces multitrack videos to save input costs.
Joke
Why don't programmers like nature? It has too many bugs.
That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Keep reading and learning.
Shubham