AWS S3

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “cloudflare has storage sooooo much cheaper than aws s3 (only one I used for decade)”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “I've saved plenty of money by migrating from AWS S3 to Cloudflare's R2”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-16

• “aws s3api get-object doesn't support stdout natively, so if you need it and want to use it in a pipeline (e.g. pv), you would naively do something like $ aws s3api get-object --bucket foo --key bar /dev/stdout | pv ... Unfortunately, aws s3api already prints the API response to stdout, and error messages to stderr, so if you do the above you'll clobber your pipeline with noise”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-27

• “I am still within free tier limits of AWS S3 and cloudfront (CDN) since I am not getting much traffic. So my website is on edge locations all over the world as part of their CDN for free”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2025-11-14

• “S3 is one of the cheapest storage solutions ever created. The last 10 years I have migrated roughly 10-20PB worth of data to AWS S3 and it resulted in significant cost saving every single time.”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2025-10-29

• “The only thing that's somewhat safe is a static built website hosted on AWS S3. No way to deface or take down that unless you manage to get your credentials exfiltrated by some malware.”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-09-25

• “host the build (basically a HTML page with a JS file) on AWS S3 or similar static hosting platforms. That's the solution I've been using for 10+ years without any problem.”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-06-12