{"id":1701,"slug":"s3-current-price-2-3-cents-per-gb-2025","title":"S3 Standard ~$0.023/GB in 2025/2026 (first 50TB), tiering to $0.021/GB","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","dev","candid-team"],"topics":["web-infrastructure","cloud-infrastructure-economics"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** Current S3 Standard pricing is **~$0.023/GB** for the first 50TB/month, tiering down to **$0.021/GB**. Glacier Deep Archive is **$0.00099/GB-month** — archival storage essentially free.\n\n**Source:** AWS S3 pricing page (2025/2026).\n\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** Pair with [[s3-launch-march-2006-15-cents-per-gb]] for the dated before/after. The archival-tier collapse means historical document storage for a client portal is no longer a meaningful line item.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"s3-launch-march-2006-15-cents-per-gb","title":"Amazon S3 launched March 14, 2006 at $0.15/GB — object storage as a metered utility","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-falling-cost-floor-real-web-functionality-smb-june-2026","title":"Research brief: the falling cost floor of \"real\" web functionality for SMBs (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"s3-price-drop-magnitude-85-percent","title":"S3 storage cost fell ~85% from launch — ~7× more data for the same dollar; independently corroborated","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:00.431Z","updated_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:00.431Z"}