Amazon has reined in the price of its S3 storage a bit as of February 1.
It didn’t give a reason for its largesse other than a vague allusion to economies of scale. Maybe it has something to do with Gartner saying using cloud storage for business intelligence is only cheaper for the first five years.
Anyway, under the new schedule 50TB, for instance, will cost 12% less than it did and 500TB will be 13.5% less; headier amounts are unchanged – at least in America. Other regions have their own schedules. AWS GovCloud also has its own pricing.
Last week Amazon counted the objects S3 is stored and put the number at 762 billion, up 192% year-over-year.
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