S3 isn't getting cheaper
AWS&#x27;s pricing strategy changed a few years ago.  Previously, they&#x27;d drop prices aggressively with much fanfare every time they did.  Nowadays, they almost never drop prices, but release new offerings they say will save money [for certain use cases]:<p>- Gravitron 2 is slightly cheaper than Intel instances, with a greater price&#x2F;performance ratio—at least for some applications.<p>- m6i is same price as m5, but new generation of CPU and increased network performance.<p>- gp3 is 20% cheaper than gp2 and has better baseline performance.  It can also scale performance independently of size, so no more overprovisioning storage to hit a certain IOPS.<p>- S3 has IA, Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive, all offering cheaper storage but more expensive retrieval.<p>Not defending AWS here, just noting that they don&#x27;t seem to be interested in direct price reductions anymore.<p>(EDIT:  Previously I stated gp3 and gp2 were the same price.  Thanks zerocrates and maxxam for the correction.)