# Amazon S3

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AWS object storage, priced per region — every figure here is us-east-1 (US East, N. Virginia) from the published price list.

## Who it suits

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

Consider something else if 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.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)
- Pricing model: 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. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)
- 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. ([source](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/current/us-east-1/index.json), read 2026-09-06)

### 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. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/), read 2026-09-07)

### 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. ([source](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/current/us-east-1/index.json), read 2026-09-06)
- 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. ([source](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/current/us-east-1/index.json), read 2026-09-06)
- Minimum storage duration: 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. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)
- S3-compatible API: Supported ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)

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