S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
AWS S3 storage pricing has not dropped in a full decade since 2016
Simon Willison notes that AWS S3 pricing has been frozen at $0.023/GB-month since December 2016, ending a decade-long trend of regular price reductions. This is an infrastructure/cloud pricing observation with no direct AI industry signal. Marginally relevant as cloud storage costs affect AI training and inference infrastructure budgets.