There’s some speculation around whether AWS will need to raise
their prices, as many tech companies announce inflation-driven
increases. One consideration that people will sometimes give is that
AWS has never raised prices before, except that this isn’t quite true.
The following is not actually important, but I want to write it up
anyway out of pedantry.
When AWS S3 launched in March 2006 their initial pricing was:
Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.20 per GB—data uploaded
$0.20 per GB—data downloaded
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB—all data uploaded
$0.18 per GB—first 10 TB / month data downloaded
$0.16 per GB—next 40 TB / month data downloaded
$0.13 per GB—data downloaded / month over 50 TB
Data transferred between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 is free of charge
Requests
$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*
* No charge for delete requests
They went from requests being free to a low per-request charge,
lowering the data transfer cost at the same time. For very
request-heavy workloads this was a price increase on balance, and some
customers needed to make implementation changes to avoid sending so
many requests.
That this was, as far as I know, the only time they’ve raised prices in
15+ years is impressive, and speaks well of their commitment to
predictability. But it just annoys me when people claim they’ve never
done it.
AWS Has Raised Prices Before
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There’s some speculation around whether AWS will need to raise their prices, as many tech companies announce inflation-driven increases. One consideration that people will sometimes give is that AWS has never raised prices before, except that this isn’t quite true. The following is not actually important, but I want to write it up anyway out of pedantry.
When AWS S3 launched in March 2006 their initial pricing was:
In June 2007 they switched to:
They went from requests being free to a low per-request charge, lowering the data transfer cost at the same time. For very request-heavy workloads this was a price increase on balance, and some customers needed to make implementation changes to avoid sending so many requests.
That this was, as far as I know, the only time they’ve raised prices in 15+ years is impressive, and speaks well of their commitment to predictability. But it just annoys me when people claim they’ve never done it.
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