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Is S3 Express One Zone performance greatly improved to standard S3 like GCP rapid storage? My understanding is S3 Express One Zone is just more cost effective.

> 20x faster random-read data loading than a Cloud Storage regional bucket.

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Update: Just read this article[1] which clarifies S3 Express One Zone. Yes, performance is greatly improved, but actually storage costs are 8x more than a standard S3 bucket. The naming S3 Express One Zone is terrible and a bit misleading on pricing changes.

[1] https://www.warpstream.com/blog/s3-express-is-all-you-need

I understand your belief that One Zone implies less expensive, but I’m staunchly in favor of them having it in the name so people know that their data is in a single AZ. The storage class succinctly summarizes faster with lower availability.

Fair, how about instead of S3 Express they call it S3 Max (One Zone). It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to come up with good product names, just copy Apple. Though I suppose what happens when engineers are left up to the marketing. :-)

If Apple's so great at naming things, tell me (without looking) which is bigger/better/faster for their CPUs: Max or Ultra?

ha, ha, fair. Ultra. To be fair, I own a MacBook Pro M1 Max and Mac Mini M4 Pro and follow Apple products closely.

Yep, I love Apple, follow them closely, own a Mac Studio with an M3 Ultra and a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max, and it's still confusing. :)

I mean, surely a Mac Studio with an M4 Max must be the best, right? It's an entire CPU generation ahead and it's maximum! Of course, it's not... the M3 Ultra is the best.

Naming things is hard.

Yes, it’s horribly more expensive… I think you are thinking of one zone infrequent access

AWS just reduced prices on One Zone Express today.

AWS claims 10x lower latency but I haven't personally checked.

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