Data moving from a hot tier to cheaper cold storage over time with lifecycle rules.

S3 storage classes trade cost for access

Choosing a storage class is a bet on when you will read the bytes again. S3 Standard costs $0.023 per GB-month in us-east-1; Glacier Deep Archive costs $0.00099. That is a 23-fold difference for identical durability, and the whole decision is which number your access pattern deserves. ...

September 30, 2026 · 5 min · XB Field Notes