That's right -- on 2007-06-01 they switched from:
Data Transfer
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$0.20 per GB - data uploaded
$0.20 per GB - data downloaded
Data Transfer
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$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB
Requests
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$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests
(No charge for delete requests)
See https://web.archive.org/web/20070502160305/http://www.amazon... (can't find the announcement page)
Thanks, I had a feeling it was in 2007 but I couldn't remember the exact date.
I think the fact that change has already disappeared from our collective memory means people weren’t too bothered.
Meanwhile, Google can’t seem to take a step without tripping over a price increase.
It hasn't disappeared from my memory! There were people who did very, umm, "creative" things with S3 (classic example, creating a virtual disk by storing each 512-byte sector as an S3 object) who suddenly changed direction after the pricing changed.
I agree that AWS does much better than Google though -- the S3 change was a big wakeup call to them about pricing all the dimensions rather than assuming people will use a service the same way as Amazon uses it internally.
Admittedly that was a very long time ago, but it has happened.