Optimizing Your Amazon Web Services Costs
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I’ve been with Amazon for quite a long time now and you must have heard that their web hosting services aren’t very cheap. The average total of one instance per month (including EBS, S3 and all the others) was around $120 at the start. That was back in July 2009 when I had no idea about how all this stuff works. With a lot of experimenting I managed to drop my instance per month costs down by around 40%. Below are a few tips that can help you lower your Amazon Web Services charges:
