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We've been working to drive down our costs and to pass the savings along to our customers. We've focused on bandwidth costs and are happy to announce that the cost of outbound bandwidth (for data transferred from within AWS to the outside world) has been reduced effective May 1, 2008. The old and new costs are as follows:

Note that there's an entirely new pricing tier, for customers with outbound monthly transfer in excess of 150 Terabytes.

As noted in the forum post, a customer with 50 TB of monthly transfer will save 16% and a customer with 500 TB of monthly transfer will save 26%. Earlier this year we let the world know that the total bandwidth consumed by Amazon EC2 and S3 is greater than that consumed by all of our global web sites put together.

We've also updated the AWS Simple Calculator Utility to reflect the new prices.

-- Jeff;

I hardly ever listen to broadcast radio in my car anymore. Instead, I subscribe to a whole bunch of podcasts, some technical, some fun, and others educational. Here are two episodes which should be of interest to anyone who reads this blog:

The Mashable Podcast interviews Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale. Michael talks about their product and how it helps organizations to use Amazon EC2 in a cost-effective fashion.

The IT Conversations Podcast captures Amazon CTO Werner Vogels as he talks about AWS at last years ETech conference.

You can listen to either or both of these on the respective sites or you can simply subscribe to their RSS feeds.

-- Jeff;

PS - Congratulations are due to to RightScale for the successful completion of their fund raising endeavor.

I'll be in New York this coming Friday, the second leg of a trip to Washington, DC and New York.

Via Twitter, Tristan Louis suggested a lunch meetup and I was happy to oblige. We'll be meeting at the Union Square Coffee Shop at 12:30 on Friday the 2nd of May and you are welcome to come along.

I will have a couple of hours open in the afternoon and would be happy to have a private meeting or two as well. Just leave a note in the Wiki and send a confirming email to evangelists at amazon.com.

-- Jeff;