Is S3 priced in actual power-of-two GB? Or the shrinkflation power of ten GiB?
Amazon S3 storage usage is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB), defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Similarly, 1 TB is 2^40 bytes, i.e. 1024 GBs.
I guess they could just change that overnight in the future. Still, a lot better than charging for Storage Units or similarly arbitrary unit.
GiB is unambiguously the big one, power of two. You want S3 to be priced in dollars per GiB. "shrinkflation power of ten GiB" is getting it backwards.