Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reduced the pricing of Amazon S3 Express One Zone — its cloud object storage targeted at performance-critical and latency-sensitive applications.
Introduced at re:Invent 2023, Amazon S3 Express Zone was brought to life to deliver efficiencies, such as better performance, that the S3 Standard storage class couldn’t provide while handling thousands of requests per second with consistent single-digit millisecond latency.
The ability to maintain high performance and low latency makes Amazon S3 Express One Zone a fit for enterprises to store data that will be accessed frequently by their applications, the company said in a statement.
In order to achieve performance gains over S3 Standard, AWS stores and replicates data on purpose-built hardware within a single AWS Availability Zone — a component of AWS regions containing infrastructure.
The pricing changes, which went into effect on April 10, will impact storage, reads, writes, data uploads, and retrieval per byte with reads seeing the maximum reduction at 85%.
For example, AWS customers in the US East (N. Virginia) region will now pay $0.00003 per 1,000 requests without any limit for read requests in contrast to the earlier charge of $0.0002 per 1,000 requests up to 512 KB.
The storage component of the storage service is also seeing a 31% reduction in pricing with customers using the service via US East (N. Virginia) region now having to pay $0.11 per GB per month instead of $0.16 per GB per month.
The cost of write requests, too, has been slashed by 55%. Customers using the service via the US East (N. Virginia) region will now have to pay $0.00113 per 1,000 requests without any limit against $0.0025 per 1,000 requests up to 512 KB.
Both data uploads and retrieval components have received price cuts as well — as much as 60% with customers now having to pay $0.0032 and $0.0006 per GB compared to $0.008 and $0.0015 per GB respectively for using the service via the US East (N. Virginia) region.
AWS said the pricing changes will benefit enterprises running performance-intensive workloads, such as interactive data analytics, data streaming, media rendering and transcoding, high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning, and AI training.
This means that AWS customers who are planning to deploy generative AI and agentic AI might be able to take advantage of the storage service.
The change in pricing to Amazon S3 Express One Zone is applicable wherever the service is available, AWS said. Currently, the storage service is available across US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm) regions.
Source:: Network World