AWS EC2 Instances Per-Second Billing

AWS announced per-second billing for EC2 and EBS Volumes

  • Effective October 2, 2017
  • Available for On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instance Types
  • EBS Storage gains same benefits as well
  • Also applies to Amazon EMR and AWS Batch

Amazon Web Services provides flexible, secure and scalable cloud platform for the masses, and according to the Gartner Research, is a leader in this field. Today, they announced another useful feature which will change the level of the playing field again:

Effective 10/02/2017, usage of Linux instances that are launched in On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot form will be billed in one-second increments. Similarly, provisioned storage for EBS volumes will be billed in one-second increments. Per-second billing also applies to Amazon EMR and AWS Batch.

AWS is used by more than 1 million people from "organizations of every size across nearly every industry," Jeff Bezos wrote in his letter to shareholders.

Per-second Billing Advantages

With new per-second billing, companies can gain advantage of more flexible billing cycle, especially when utilizing fast-moving spot-instance EC2 types, when new instances are started and stopped often several times an hour. Back in the old days, you would still pay for entire hour, even though you may have used the instance for maybe 10 minutes. Another win is auto-scaling, where instances may start and stop programmatically, on-demand, and wont necessarily run for entire hour. I do not foresee any benefits of this feature when utilizing reserved instances.

So mark your calendars, and update your billing/reporting apps accordingly, to take advantage of new per-second billing of AWS EC2 instances, EBS storage, and also EMR and Batch.

Original article can be found from AWS Blog.

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