A Guide for Optimizing AWS S3 Storage Cost

AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is one of the most popular cloud storage services. Unlike many goods whose prices increase, storage costs per unit decrease over time. However, the amount of data we store increases much faster than the speed of the decrease of the storage cost per unit, so if we don’t use S3 wisely, we may be surprised by our S3 bill. This article provides a guideline for optimizing the S3 storage cost and includes some S3 details we need to know to use S3 wisely.