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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?
    magicalhippo · 1790583294 · focus · HN ↗
    From the S3 pricing details[1]:
    Amazon S3 storage usage is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB), defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Similarly, 1 TB is 2^40 bytes, i.e. 1024 GBs.
    I guess they could just change that overnight in the future. Still, a lot better than charging for Storage Units or similarly arbitrary unit.
    [1]: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/#S3_Pricing_Details" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/#S3_Pricing_Details

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