Thursday, September 17, 2015

AWS Storage Update: New Lower Cost S3 Storage Option & Glacier Price Reduction

AWS Storage Update: New Lower Cost S3 Storage Option & Glacier Price Reduction. Jeff Barr. Amazon. 16 September 2015.
      Changes in Amazon pricing and storage options:  Amazon is adding a new storage class for data that is accessed infrequently, the S3 Standard – Infrequent Access, along with Standard and Glacier. This has all of the existing S3 security and access management, data life-cycle policies, cross-region replication, and event notifications features.

Prices for Standard – IA start at $0.0125 / gigabyte / month with a 30 day minimum storage duration and a $0.01 / gigabyte charge for retrieval plus transfer and request charges). Objects smaller than 128 kilobytes are charged for 128 kilobytes of storage. Data life-cycle policies can be defined to move data between Amazon S3 storage classes over time.

Also, the price of Amazon Glacier storage has decreased by up to 36%, based on the region, which is available for as little as $0.007/GB per month.

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