S3 Standard ~$0.023/GB in 2025/2026 (first 50TB), tiering to $0.021/GB

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web-infrastructure cloud-infrastructure-economics

Created 2026-06-21

Summary

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.

Source: AWS S3 pricing page (2025/2026).

Confidence: Verified.

Why this matters for Candid: Pair with Amazon S3 launched March 14, 2006 at $0.15/GB — object storage as a metered utility for the dated before/after. The archival-tier collapse means historical document storage for a client portal is no longer a meaningful line item.

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reference Amazon S3 launched March 14, 2006 at $0.15/GB — object storage as a metered utility

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