I’ve got good news for AWS customers who make use of our Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. Effective September 1, 2018 we are reducing prices for data transfer from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon CloudFront by up to 34% in Japan and 28% in Australia.

EC2 and S3 Data Transfer

Here are the new prices for data transfer from EC2 and S3 to the Internet:

EC2 & S3 Data Transfer Out to Internet Japan Australia Old Rate New Rate Change Old Rate New Rate Change Up to 1 GB / Month $0.000 $0.000 0% $0.000 $0.000 0% Next 9.999 TB / Month $0.140 $0.114 -19% $0.140 $0.114 -19% Next 40 TB / Month $0.135 $0.089 -34% $0.135 $0.098 -27% Next 100 TB / Month $0.130 $0.086 -34% $0.130 $0.094 -28% Greater than 150 TB / Month $0.120 $0.084 -30% $0.120 $0.092 -23%

You can consult the EC2 Pricing and S3 Pricing pages for more information.

CloudFront Data Transfer

Here are the new prices for data transfer from CloudFront edge nodes to the Internet

CloudFront Data Transfer Out to Internet Japan Australia Old Rate New Rate Change Old Rate New Rate Change Up to 10 TB / Month $0.140 $0.114 -19% $0.140 $0.114 -19% Next 40 TB / Month $0.135 $0.089 -34% $0.135 $0.098 -27% Next 100 TB / Month $0.120 $0.086 -28% $0.120 $0.094 -22% Next 350 TB / Month $0.100 $0.084 -16% $0.100 $0.092 -8% Next 524 TB / Month $0.080 $0.080 0% $0.095 $0.090 -5% Next 4 PB / Month $0.070 $0.070 0% $0.090 $0.085 -6% Over 5 PB / Month $0.060 $0.060 0% $0.085 $0.080 -6%

Visit the CloudFront Pricing page for more information.

We have also reduced the price of data transfer from CloudFront to your Origin. The price for CloudFront Data Transfer to Origin from edge locations in Australia has been reduced 20% to $0.080 per GB. This represents content uploads via POST and PUT.

Things to Know

Here are a couple of interesting things that you should know about AWS and data transfer:

AWS Free Tier – You can use the AWS Free Tier to get started with, and to learn more about, EC2, S3, CloudFront, and many other AWS services. The AWS Getting Started page contains lots of resources to help you with your first project.

Data Transfer from AWS Origins to CloudFront – There is no charge for data transfers from an AWS origin (S3, EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, and so forth) to any CloudFront edge location.

CloudFront Reserved Capacity Pricing – If you routinely use CloudFront to deliver 10 TB or more content per month, you should investigate our Reserved Capacity pricing. You can receive a significant discount by committing to transfer 10 TB or more content from a single region, with additional discounts at higher levels of usage. To learn more or to sign up, simply Contact Us.

— Jeff;