AWS is happy to announce price reductions for data transfer in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). This will effectively make data transfers from AWS EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront by up to 34% in Japan and 28% in Australia.
EC2 and S3 Data Transfer
| Data Transfer to Internet | Japan | Australia | ||
| New Price | Reduction | New Price | Reduction | |
| Up to 9.99999TB / month | $0.114 | -19% | $0.114 | -19% |
| Next 40TB /month | $0.089 | -34% | $0.098 | -27% |
| Next 100TB /month | $0.086 | -34% | $0.094 | -28% |
| Over 150TB / month | $0.084 | -30% | $0.092 | -23% |
More information can be found at the EC2 Pricing and S3 Pricing webpages.
CloudFront Data Transfer
CloudFront is also offering lower prices, as per the table below.
| Data Transfer to Internet | Japan | Australia | ||
| New Price | Reduction | New Price | Reduction | |
| Up to 10TB / month | $0.114 | -19% | $0.114 | -19% |
| Next 40TB /month | $0.089 | -34% | $0.098 | -27% |
| Next 100TB /month | $0.086 | -28% | $0.094 | -22% |
| Next 350TB / month | $0.084 | -16% | $0.092 | -8% |
| Next 524TB /month | $0.080 | 0% | $0.090 | -5% |
| Next 4 PB /month | $0.070 | 0% | $0.085 | -6% |
| Over 5 PB /month | $0.060 | 0% | $0.080 | -6% |
More information can be found at the CloudFront Pricing page.
Also of note, CloudFront Data Transfer to Origin from edge locations in Australia has also been reduced to $0.080 per GB, a discount of 20%.
These price changes have already taken effect. If you would like to start leveraging the cloud to enhance your business, consider contacting our AWS experts at PolarSeven.
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