Starting from 2nd October 2017, Amazon will be charging customers per second instead of per hour. This will be applied to a number of their services, including:

  • EC2 instances
  • EBS volumes
  • EMR (Elastic MapReduce) big data processing
  • AWS Batch
  • Elastic GPUs
  • Provisioned IOPS

This will be welcome news for many of Amazon’s customers who have had to run complex management systems to get value for money on sub-hour workflows. A billing change like this ensures customers can be more flexible and save money when using EC2 instances for tasks not suited for AWS Lamba.

Have you been waiting for per-second billing? Have you switched back to using EC2 instances since this change?

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/