> I was referencing the full pricing page for s3 that breaks down by region and class.
You were referring to the announcements and these announcements are still available.
The actual pricing pages of course only show current prices. What would be the motivation for AWS to show outdated prices there as well? No other company I can think of does that and given the complexity of the pricing structure for AWS services that'd only confuse users even more.
> A lot of price decreases also might have happened silently (without a blog post)
Do you have an example for that or is this just hearsay?
> or as de facto decreases (widely but privately negotiated, e.g. "sticker price")
Privately negotiated deals aren't regular price reductions as they're only available for customers with a fairly large spend for such AWS services.
I can say that price _increases_ happened for a few AWS products in specific regions/countries without blog posts. Often AWS simply emails affected customers 1-3 months in advance and after making the change. That said, I imagine prices shifted due to currency, labour costs, energy costs or other regional concerns. And I’ve seen the opposite - I’ve seen AWS freeze prices and eat the cost differences long after they should have raised costs. It varies by product and region and marketing strategy, I expect.
The only rule of thumb is what is posted on the pricing page is supposed to be what you get charged. No APIs exist for the most part, and the actual charges can sometimes differ anyway (e.g. grandfathered pricing etc.)
You were referring to the announcements and these announcements are still available.
The actual pricing pages of course only show current prices. What would be the motivation for AWS to show outdated prices there as well? No other company I can think of does that and given the complexity of the pricing structure for AWS services that'd only confuse users even more.
> A lot of price decreases also might have happened silently (without a blog post)
Do you have an example for that or is this just hearsay?
> or as de facto decreases (widely but privately negotiated, e.g. "sticker price")
Privately negotiated deals aren't regular price reductions as they're only available for customers with a fairly large spend for such AWS services.