Ask HN: Are AWS network charges in GB (gigabytes) or GiB (gibibytes)

– 1 GB = 1000 MB (1000 bytes ^ 3)

– 1 GiB = 1073 MB (1024 bytes ^ 3)

The docs don’t seem to explicitly mention it. They just say GB.

But AWS has been known to use GB for simplicity in docs – as in https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/.

I have been tearing my hair out trying to get to the bottom of this. It starts to matter when making cost calculations are large scale.

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