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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. layoric · 1790560845 · focus · HN ↗
  This is absolutely the case for nearly all of AWS products. Some new services have filled lower price gaps, but I previously looked at EC2 and other service prices in the past and late 2016 is where it all seemed to stop getting price drops. The M5+ upgrades for example all came with price increases along with the performance gains.
  1. KAdot · 1790579915 · focus · HN ↗
    Every new EC2 generation is typically slightly more expensive, but the gains in the compute performance are 15-25% or even higher depending on your workload. The same dollar buys you a lot more compute power than a decade ago.

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