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S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

79 points · 120 comments · tkhattra

simonw · 1790550559 · focus · HN ↗
One thing I find notable about S3 today is that, while it used to drop in price reasonably often, there hasn't been a price drop in a full decade:
```
  2006-03-14  $0.150&#x2F;GB-month
  2010-11-01  $0.140&#x2F;GB-month
  2012-02-01  $0.125&#x2F;GB-month
  2012-12-01  $0.095&#x2F;GB-month
  2014-02-01  $0.085&#x2F;GB-month
  2014-04-01  $0.030&#x2F;GB-month
  2016-12-01  $0.023&#x2F;GB-month
```
Today it's still $0.023/GB-month.
1. OrangeDelonge · 1790553552 · focus · HN ↗
  I guess inflation is the price reduction we get. 23 cents in 2016 is 32 cents in 2026
  1. magicalhippo · 1790557058 · focus · HN ↗
    Just be happy they keep the GB as large as they used to...
    bigiain · 1790565749 · focus · HN ↗
    Is S3 priced in actual power-of-two GB? Or the shrinkflation power of ten GiB?
    Dylan16807 · 1790574306 · focus · HN ↗
    You got those backwards.
    Dylan16807 · 1790608426 · focus · HN ↗
    Can someone please explain what was apparently wrong with my comment?
    GiB is unambiguously the big one, power of two. You want S3 to be priced in dollars per GiB. "shrinkflation power of ten GiB" is getting it backwards.

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