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Significant reductions for "fast S3", however the base capacity pricing is still very high at $110/TB/month. That is as expensive as EBS io2 which is much much faster in terms of latency.

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Yup. I plugged the numbers in just to check it out and for our very busy service, the storage costs eat up the savings from the reduced GET and PUT pricing. For us, express is still 8x more expensive.

We're pursuing Fsx NetApp ONTAP to store the objects in the short term in our processing pipeline. Unfortunately, we may need to build our own lifecycle management component if we go that route.

Why would anyone use Netapp over Qumulo in AWS? AFAIK, Qumulo is much less expensive and has better performance if you have a lot of data.

I'll have to look into that. We heavily bias towards AWS offered managed services. We have a massive enterprise support contract and we use it. We're almost always going to look for something AWS can provide directly as long as it meets the requirements.

So in what scenario would one use S3 Express One zone rather than EB io2.

Don’t you get global HA with S3?

actually, the S3 Express One zone - as the name indicates - is not global HA, but single zone. So questioning it over fast block storage like io2 or simplyblock is actually valid. It is just matter of s3 interface over a block interface.

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