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title: S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/hn-49871741/
source: simonwillison-net
published: 2026-09-27T23:09:19Z
updated: 2026-09-27T23:09:19Z
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- amazon-web-services
- s3
summary: 'My comment on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past — Hacker News. 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/GB-month 2010-11-01 $0.140/GB-month 2012-02-01 $0.125/GB-month 2012-12-01 $0.095/GB-month 2014-02-01 $0.085/GB-month 2014-04-01 $0.030/GB-month 2016-12-01 $0.023/GB-month Today it''s still $0.023/GB-month. Tags: amazon-web-services, s3'
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[My comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851693#49871741) on [S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851693) — Hacker News

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/GB-month
2010-11-01  $0.140/GB-month
2012-02-01  $0.125/GB-month
2012-12-01  $0.095/GB-month
2014-02-01  $0.085/GB-month
2014-04-01  $0.030/GB-month
2016-12-01  $0.023/GB-month
```

Today it's still $0.023/GB-month.