Timed for announcement at AWS re:Invent, and nicely juxtaposed against this week’s similar storage price cuts by Google, Amazon has trimmed S3 and EBS prices.
They’ve reduced the price of Amazon S3 storage by 24-28% in the US Standard Region, and made similar price reductions in all nine regions worldwide as well as reducing the price of Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). Here are the new prices for Standard Storage in the US Standard Region:
| Tier | Old Price (GB / month) |
New Price | Change |
| First 1 TB / month | $0.125 | $0.095 | 24% |
| Next 49 TB | $0.110 | $0.080 | 27% |
| Next 450 TB | $0.095 | $0.070 | 26% |
| Next 500 TB | $0.090 | $0.065 | 28% |
| Next 4000 TB | $0.080 | $0.060 | 25% |
| Over 5000 TB | $0.055 | $0.055 | No change |
The new prices are listed on the Amazon S3 pricing announcement page. The new prices take effect on December 1, 2012 and will be applied automatically.
Amazon also reduced the per-gigabyte storage cost for EBS snapshots, again world-wide. Here are the new prices:
| Region | Old Price (GB / month) |
New Price | Change |
| US East (N. Virginia) | $0.125 | $0.095 | 24% |
| US West (Oregon) | $0.125 | $0.095 | 24% |
| US West (Northern California) | $0.140 | $0.105 | 25% |
| EU (Ireland) | $0.125 | $0.095 | 24% |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | $0.125 | $0.095 | 24% |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | $0.130 | $0.100 | 23% |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | $0.140 | $0.105 | 25% |
| South America (Sao Paulo) | $0.170 | $0.130 | 24% |
