Amazon Simple Queue Service
Amazon just released a new API and pricing model for their Simple Queue Service. There are two changes that I find especially interesting:
- Data transfer to EC2 is now free. You only pay for transfers to a system outside Amazon’s cloud. This makes it dirt cheap to use for many applications.
- Pricing is now $0.01/10,000 requests, rather than $0.10/1,000 messages. It’s both a change in how things are measured, but also potentially a lot cheaper depending on your application. This means that you can run 1,000,000 requests for a single dollar. Not bad.
Overall, it’s a great change, I think. They have reduced the size of the maximum message from 256kB to 8kB, but I doubt this will affect many people, and you can just shove the larger messages into S3 and send a reference in the message.
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