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# S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

## Retrieval answer

Simon Willison notes that Amazon S3 Standard storage reached $0.023 per GB-month in December 2016 after a series of earlier price cuts, and that the listed price remains $0.023 today.

Simon Willison notes that Amazon S3 Standard storage reached $0.023 per GB-month in December 2016 after a series of earlier price cuts, and that the listed price remains $0.023 today. The observation marks a decade-long plateau in the base storage rate, not a newly announced AWS pricing change.

Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/hn-49871741

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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