S3 isn't getting cheaper
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S3 isn't getting cheaper
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#2all amazon services seem so expensive, hundreds of dollars/ month bills easily for running a few large ec2 servers all month.
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#3Lately im doing Backblaze B2 + Bunny CDN and im very satisfied with the prices
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#4I suspect it might be an issue of "cheap enough". For smaller Projects, the s3 storage cost doesn't matter too much. Medium sized projects may find the tradeoff between price vs cost of a custom solution to still be more than good enough. Large enough projects simply chose a different, more specialized solution anyway
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#5It looks like the most recent data point, S3 was actually cheaper than the raw storage, while providing 11 9's of durability, across multiple AZs. Still looks like a pretty good deal, as the price of storage has mostly flatlined in this graph.
Nor does this even account for cold storage, or reduced redundancy.
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#6> Yet, AWS S3 pricing hasn't decreased as fast as the underlying storage costs.
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> Another blog post analyzes the same theory for compute and finds a similar story using pricing data from AWS EC2.
AWS used to do frequent price reductions years ago. At a certain point they seem to have stopped doing that and are now only doing them rarely. That's really a shame as there are still a lot of AWS offerings which are priced way too high (data transfer being the most prominent one).
It'll be interesting to see if and up to which point AWS will keep the prices stable with raising inflation.
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#7The R2 vs S3 story is pretty interesting. For archival use cases, S3 still wins by a mile, but for running apps, R2 often wins (minus lacking features).
I wrote up my findings here: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloudflare-r2-aws-s3-comparison
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#8> It's hard to come to a firm conclusion since pricing data is held very secretly (AWS quickly deletes announcements of historical price decreases).
That's not correct. Here is the history of every (properly tagged) price reduction AWS ever announced: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/price-reduction/
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#9As a European I take not getting many times as expensive, like our fuel, energy and food prices. I wonder how the European cloud will fare this winter, and how many European customers we will lose.
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#10all amazon services seem so expensive, hundreds of dollars/ month bills easily for running a few large ec2 servers all month.
Why haven't there been a upstart taking market share? Why do only the big players get into the game and hold similar costs?