"In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced the per-GB charges for data uploads and retrievals by 60 percent, and these charges now apply to all bytes transferred rather than just portions of requests greater than 512 KB"
It's not clear but are there cases where this could be a significant price rise? If you exclusively had small objects (<512kb) being written and read then this could add up quickly.
Why would anyone pay the crazy high AWS prices?
Do startups still use AWS?
I’m assuming these days AWS is just fleecing the big companies who feel like there’s only one option.
I guess it was seldom used. There are some pricing anomalies all over aws offering.
I recently tried to use their IPAM and was amazed by the outrageous cost.
Significant reductions for "fast S3", however the base capacity pricing is still very high at $110/TB/month. That is as expensive as EBS io2 which is much much faster in terms of latency.