{"id":1705,"slug":"ec2-per-second-billing-october-2017","title":"EC2 per-second billing introduced October 2, 2017 — replacing hourly increments in place since 2006","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","dev","candid-team"],"topics":["cloud-infrastructure-economics"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** AWS introduced **per-second billing** for EC2 on **October 2, 2017**, replacing the hourly billing increments in place since the 2006 launch.\n\n**Source:** AWS blog.\n\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** The granularity shift is part of the structural \"metered like a utility\" story — short-lived workloads (Lambda-style or burst) are now billed at the resolution at which they actually run, not rounded to the hour.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"ec2-launch-august-2006-ten-cents-per-hour","title":"Amazon EC2 launched as limited public beta August 25, 2006 — single m1.small instance at $0.10/hour","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-falling-cost-floor-real-web-functionality-smb-june-2026","title":"Research brief: the falling cost floor of \"real\" web functionality for SMBs (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"lambda-launch-november-2014-serverless","title":"AWS Lambda previewed November 13, 2014; GA April 9, 2015 — code with no servers to provision","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:00.461Z","updated_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:00.461Z"}