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by acstorage 428 days ago
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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.

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.
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.