I appreciate your enthusiasm for our products, but this is a huge step forward for S3 customers. I think it's fair to say you find Glacier too complicated (it's

I appreciate your enthusiasm for our products, but this is a huge step forward for S3 customers. I think it's fair to say you find Glacier too complicated (it's part of the reason Coldline doesn't look like that), but to say this new setup is worse just isn't true. I can assure you that if AWS had announced a simple flat-rate structure that was more expensive for everyone there would be plenty of unhappy existing customers. It's a tough call to balance simplicity and efficiency, by making this complex for you, they allow you to opt-in to the "screw it, give me my bytes back as fast as you can" model. You could just pretend that's the only option ;). Again, I'm not criticizing your unhappiness with the complexity of Glacier. But I think it's only fair to recognize that the folks at AWS have just released a major improvement that provides real value for some customers. Disclosure: I work at Google Cloud.