--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "97397d7fa75c50842dda10c031f033b93521632e4c75b14cecdbf738f8f9b99e" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/97397d7f?lang=en" title: "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-09-27T23:09:19.000Z" category: "Infra" topics: ["amazon"] source_urls: ["https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/hn-49871741/"] 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" --- # S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-09-27T23:09:19.000Z **Category:** Infra **Topics:** amazon ## 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 ## Sources - [Story source]()