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Amazon S3 vs Tigris

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of Amazon S3 and Tigris built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 17 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose Amazon S3 if…

Workloads already inside AWS, where keeping data in the same region as the compute avoids the transfer charges that dominate an object storage bill.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Tigris if…

Globally distributed buckets with no egress fees and tiered storage, where cold data drops to $0.004 per GB-month without a separate archive product to manage.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Amazon S3: Egress is the cost that decides this category and S3 charges for it, where R2, Wasabi and Tigris do not. Prices also vary by region, so a figure quoted anywhere is only true for the region it was read in.
  • Tigris: Retrieval is charged on the Infrequent Access and Glacier tiers, so the tiering that lowers the storage bill can raise the access one. The cheapest tier is not the cheapest for data you actually read.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Amazon S3 alternatives · Tigris alternatives

8 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionAmazon S3Tigris
Pricing
Free tierYesYes
Kind of free offerIntroductory free tierFree tier
What the free plan includes100 GB a month of data transfer out to the internet, counted globally rather than per region. Storage itself is billed from the first byte.5 GB of storage with no egress fees; egress is free on every tier rather than only the free one.
Egress over allowance
$0.09 per GB for the first 10 TB a month out to the internet, after a free 100 GB aggregated globally. It falls to $0.085 above 10 TB, $0.07 above 50 TB and $0.05 above 150 TB. This is AWS's outbound data transfer rate rather than an S3-specific one — the charge that R2, Wasabi and Tigris do not levy at all.
None, on every storage class. Tigris states it does not charge "for regional data transfer, region-to-region data transfer, or data transfer out to the internet (egress)". The $0.01–$0.03 per GB that appears beside it on the pricing table is Data Retrieval — a separate line from Data Storage and request charges, billed for reading out of the Infrequent Access and Archive Instant Retrieval classes, and not a transfer charge.
Limits
Storage (entry plan)None. S3 has no plans and no included storage — AWS states there is no minimum charge and you pay only for what you use, billed per GB-month from the first byte. New accounts get AWS Free Tier credits ($100 immediately, up to $200 over six months) which are spendable credit rather than a standing storage allowance.5 GB free, shown against a modelled $1.90 Tigris cost versus $8.75 on AWS and $11.00 on GCS for the same scenario
Infrastructure
Uptime SLA
99.9% for S3 Standard, Express One Zone and the Glacier retrieval classes; 99.0% for Intelligent-Tiering, Standard-Infrequent Access, One Zone-IA and Glacier Instant Retrieval.
99.9% for the Standard and Archive tiers, 99.0% for Infrequent Access. The SLA also states the service is designed for 99.99% and that the design target is descriptive, not the commitment.
Storage
Storage price
$0.023 per GB-month for S3 Standard, first 50 TB, in us-east-1. S3 prices vary by region; this and every other S3 figure on the site is that region.
$0.02 per GB-month for Standard, $0.01 for Infrequent Access, $0.004 for Archive and Glacier tiers
Operations price
$0.005 per 1,000 PUT, COPY, POST and LIST requests, and $0.004 per 10,000 GET and all other requests, in us-east-1. DELETE and CANCEL are free.
$0.005 per 1,000 Class A requests and $0.0005 per 1,000 Class B, on every tier. DELETE and CANCEL are free. Object notifications cost $0.01 per 1,000 events.
Minimum storage durationNone on S3 Standard. 30 days on Standard-IA and One Zone-IA, 90 days on Glacier Instant and Flexible Retrieval, 180 days on Glacier Deep Archive, each with a pro-rated charge for early deletion.None on Standard. Infrequent Access carries a 30-day minimum; Tigris names Archive and Archive Instant Retrieval as also subject to a minimum, listed in its pricing table as 90 days. Deleting or updating an object sooner is still billed for the full window.
S3-compatible APISupportedSupported

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Kind of free offer

Amazon S3
Introductory free tier
Tigris
Free tier
Sources (2) →

What the free plan includes

Amazon S3
100 GB a month of data transfer out to the internet, counted globally rather than per region. Storage itself is billed from the first byte.
Tigris
5 GB of storage with no egress fees; egress is free on every tier rather than only the free one.
Sources (2) →

Egress over allowance

Amazon S3
$0.09 per GB for the first 10 TB a month out to the internet, after a free 100 GB aggregated globally. It falls to $0.085 above 10 TB, $0.07 above 50 TB and $0.05 above 150 TB. This is AWS's outbound data transfer rate rather than an S3-specific one — the charge that R2, Wasabi and Tigris do not levy at all.
Tigris
None, on every storage class. Tigris states it does not charge "for regional data transfer, region-to-region data transfer, or data transfer out to the internet (egress)". The $0.01–$0.03 per GB that appears beside it on the pricing table is Data Retrieval — a separate line from Data Storage and request charges, billed for reading out of the Infrequent Access and Archive Instant Retrieval classes, and not a transfer charge.
Sources (2) →
  • AWS Price List API — AWSDataTransfer, us-east-1 ↗

    “"$0 for 100GB of data transfer out to the internet, aggregated globally" [...] "$0.090 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out beyond the global free tier" [...] "$0.085 per GB - next 40 TB / month" [...] "$0.070 per GB - next 100 TB / month" [...] "$0.050 per GB - greater than 150 TB / month"”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Tigris ↗

    “Zero egress fees. While other cloud providers tax you for each GB of data transferred, we don't. At Tigris, we don't charge for regional data transfer, region-to-region data transfer, or data transfer out to the internet (egress).”

    Read 2026-09-21 · official pricing · Report a correction

Storage (entry plan)

Amazon S3
None. S3 has no plans and no included storage — AWS states there is no minimum charge and you pay only for what you use, billed per GB-month from the first byte. New accounts get AWS Free Tier credits ($100 immediately, up to $200 over six months) which are spendable credit rather than a standing storage allowance.
Tigris
5 GB free, shown against a modelled $1.90 Tigris cost versus $8.75 on AWS and $11.00 on GCS for the same scenario
Sources (2) →
  • Amazon S3 Pricing ↗

    “Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum charge. Amazon S3 cost components are storage pricing, request and data retrieval pricing, data transfer and transfer acceleration pricing”

    Read 2026-09-07 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Tigris ↗

    “$1.90 [...] AWS $8.75 [...] GCS $11.00 [...] FREE 5GB STORAGE COST EGRESS FEES”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Uptime SLA

Amazon S3

99.9% for S3 Standard, Express One Zone and the Glacier retrieval classes; 99.0% for Intelligent-Tiering, Standard-Infrequent Access, One Zone-IA and Glacier Instant Retrieval.

Tigris

99.9% for the Standard and Archive tiers, 99.0% for Infrequent Access. The SLA also states the service is designed for 99.99% and that the design target is descriptive, not the commitment.

Sources (2) →
  • Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement ↗

    “For requests to S3 Standard, S3 Express One Zone, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, S3 Glacier Deep Archive, and all other requests not specified below: Monthly Uptime Percentage Service Credit Percentage Less than 99.9% but greater than or equal to 99.0% 10% [...] For requests to S3 Intelligent-Tiering, S3 Standard-Infrequent Access, S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access, and S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval: Monthly Uptime Percentage Service Credit Percentage Less than 99.0% but greater than or equal to 98.0% 10%”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

  • Tigris Service Level Agreement ↗

    “the service is designed for 99.99% availability. the uptime commitment is 99.9% actual availability in each calendar month for standard tier and archive tier, and 99.0% actual availability in each calendar month for infrequent access tier. the design target is descriptive.”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

Storage price

Amazon S3
$0.023 per GB-month for S3 Standard, first 50 TB, in us-east-1. S3 prices vary by region; this and every other S3 figure on the site is that region.
Tigris
$0.02 per GB-month for Standard, $0.01 for Infrequent Access, $0.004 for Archive and Glacier tiers
Sources (2) →

Operations price

Amazon S3
$0.005 per 1,000 PUT, COPY, POST and LIST requests, and $0.004 per 10,000 GET and all other requests, in us-east-1. DELETE and CANCEL are free.
Tigris
$0.005 per 1,000 Class A requests and $0.0005 per 1,000 Class B, on every tier. DELETE and CANCEL are free. Object notifications cost $0.01 per 1,000 events.
Sources (2) →

Minimum storage duration

Amazon S3

None on S3 Standard. 30 days on Standard-IA and One Zone-IA, 90 days on Glacier Instant and Flexible Retrieval, 180 days on Glacier Deep Archive, each with a pro-rated charge for early deletion.

Tigris

None on Standard. Infrequent Access carries a 30-day minimum; Tigris names Archive and Archive Instant Retrieval as also subject to a minimum, listed in its pricing table as 90 days. Deleting or updating an object sooner is still billed for the full window.

Sources (2) →
  • S3 Pricing — AWS ↗

    “S3 Standard-IA, and S3 One Zone-IA storage are charged for a minimum storage duration of 30 days [...] Objects that are archived to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval and S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval are charged for a minimum storage duration of 90 days, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive has a minimum storage duration of 180 days.”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Tigris ↗

    “A minimum storage retention charge applies to objects stored in the Infrequent Access, Archive, and Archive Instant Retrieval tiers. For example, objects in the Infrequent Access tier are subject to a minimum storage duration of 30 days. [...] 30 days 90 days 90 days”

    Read 2026-09-07 · official docs · Report a correction

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

When the free offer endsAmazon S3: 6 months after account creation; Free Tier credits expire 12 months after that date.
Pricing modelAmazon S3: Per region and per storage class, with storage, requests, retrievals, data transfer and management features each metered separately. AWS states there is no minimum charge, and bills storage in binary gigabytes — 1 GB is 2^30 bytes, not 10^9.
SOC 2Amazon S3: Listed as SOC-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page.Tigris: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Tigris.
ISO 27001Amazon S3: Covered under AWS's account-wide ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification — not scoped per-service the way SOC, HIPAA and PCI DSS are on AWS's own site.Tigris: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Tigris.
HIPAAAmazon S3: Listed as a HIPAA-eligible service on AWS's own reference page.Tigris: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Tigris.
GDPR / data residencyAmazon S3: AWS customers can process personal data on all AWS services in compliance with GDPR, and choose the storage type and geographic region for their data.Tigris: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Tigris.
PCI DSSAmazon S3: Listed as PCI DSS-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page.Tigris: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about Tigris.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Egress over allowance: Amazon S3 or Tigris?

Amazon S3: $0.09 per GB for the first 10 TB a month out to the internet, after a free 100 GB aggregated globally. It falls to $0.085 above 10 TB, $0.07 above 50 TB and $0.05 above 150 TB. This is AWS's outbound data transfer rate rather than an S3-specific one — the charge that R2, Wasabi and Tigris do not levy at all.

Tigris: None, on every storage class. Tigris states it does not charge "for regional data transfer, region-to-region data transfer, or data transfer out to the internet (egress)". The $0.01–$0.03 per GB that appears beside it on the pricing table is Data Retrieval — a separate line from Data Storage and request charges, billed for reading out of the Infrequent Access and Archive Instant Retrieval classes, and not a transfer charge.

Storage (entry plan): Amazon S3 or Tigris?

Amazon S3: None. S3 has no plans and no included storage — AWS states there is no minimum charge and you pay only for what you use, billed per GB-month from the first byte. New accounts get AWS Free Tier credits ($100 immediately, up to $200 over six months) which are spendable credit rather than a standing storage allowance.

Tigris: 5 GB free, shown against a modelled $1.90 Tigris cost versus $8.75 on AWS and $11.00 on GCS for the same scenario

Should I choose Amazon S3 or Tigris?

Pick Amazon S3 if Workloads already inside AWS, where keeping data in the same region as the compute avoids the transfer charges that dominate an object storage bill.

Pick Tigris if Globally distributed buckets with no egress fees and tiered storage, where cold data drops to $0.004 per GB-month without a separate archive product to manage.

Provider pages

Amazon S3AWS object storage, priced per region — every figure here is us-east-1 (US East, N. Virginia) from the published price list.TigrisGlobally distributed S3-compatible object storage with tiered per-GB pricing by access frequency and no egress fees.

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Comments

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