A week ago, AWS announced that it would soon move to per-second billing for users of its EC2 service. It doesn't come as a huge surprise, then, that Google today announced a very similar move ...

An apparent billing snafu by Amazon Web Services left some customers drastically overcharged for their cloud usage. AWS customers reported their AWS charges had erroneously doubled or tripled in ...

The new Hub can be enabled from inside the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console, but takes 24 hours to recommend any actions, AWS said, adding that the recommendations are refreshed every 24 hours.

"This is a big move which I suspect required a lot of back-end effort, but it's definitely the right move for AWS," he said. "Longer term the world will get used to per-millisecond billing anyway with ...