Amazon has cut the prices on its S3 cloud storage. Presumably it’s seeing the competition bearing down on it in the rear-view mirror.
Anyway, it says that it’s reducing S3 request prices in all nine of its regions.
It’s lowering the prices for GET requests by 60% and the prices for PUT, LIST, COPY and POST requests by 50%.
That means that in its US Standard Region the price for every 1,000 PUT requests will drop from $0.01 to $0.005 and the price for every 10,000 GET requests will go from $0.01 to $0.004.
The new pricing became effective on April 1 without warning.