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> For consistency and precision, the following units are used throughout this article.

> KB: 1,024 bytes, expressed as 2^10

Why not just use KiB? Unlike KB, it's unambiguously binary.

I primarily wanted to note that I used 2^X notation in the math, in case it was confusing for folks. I used KB/MB/GB to be consistent with the language AWS uses on their S3 pricing page (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/).

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