Last Week's News, By The Numbers

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Maximum savings awaiting some customers of Amazon Web Services after the public cloud giant introduced new price cuts mostly geared to making it more affordable for Reserved Instances, through which customers can realize savings by booking cloud capacity for one or three years. AWS is adding the option of purchasing 3-year reserved instances with no upfront payment for most of the virtual machine types available on its cloud. Previously, one could only defer payments on the 1-year contracts.