I'm not saying that S3 isn't complicated, or that the pricing model, even after the changes, isn't nuts.
I'm saying that anyone who thinks this is more complicated than it was does not understand just how crazy glacier pricing was before. Three static glacier pricing tiers is a lot better than the previously system which is so complex that earlier versions of the AWS pricing page just gave up and called it "free".
(Briefly: The old Glacier model's pricing wasn't based around data transfer, but on your automatically retroactively provisioned data transfer capacity based on your peak data transfer rate, billed on a sliding scale as if you'd maintained that rate for the entire month. There's probably a less intuitive way to bill people for downloading data, but if so I've never seen it. It was a system seemingly designed to prevent users from knowing what any given retrieval would cost.)
I'm saying that anyone who thinks this is more complicated than it was does not understand just how crazy glacier pricing was before. Three static glacier pricing tiers is a lot better than the previously system which is so complex that earlier versions of the AWS pricing page just gave up and called it "free".
(Briefly: The old Glacier model's pricing wasn't based around data transfer, but on your automatically retroactively provisioned data transfer capacity based on your peak data transfer rate, billed on a sliding scale as if you'd maintained that rate for the entire month. There's probably a less intuitive way to bill people for downloading data, but if so I've never seen it. It was a system seemingly designed to prevent users from knowing what any given retrieval would cost.)