Cheaper Storage, Bigger Business

2013–2016 | S3 storage pricing compared with total AWS segment revenue

Price: year-end S3 Standard list rate for the first 1 TB, US Standard / US East (N. Virginia). Excludes requests, data transfer and discounts. Revenue covers all AWS services, not just S3.

Sources: AWS pricing announcements (November 2012, March 2014, November 2016); Amazon 2015 and 2016 Forms 10-K