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Amazon S3 pricing and limits

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aws.amazon.com/s3 · Object storage
SEPT 2026 audit

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

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Free tierYes
CategoryObject storage

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 17 criteria comparedSources last checked

Amazon S3 pricing at a glance

Pricing model
Per region and per storage class, with storage, requests, retrievals, data transfer and management features each metered separately source ↗
What the free plan includes
100 GB a month of data transfer out to the internet, counted globally rather than per region source ↗
When the free offer ends
6 months after account creation; Free Tier credits expire 12 months after that date source ↗
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 source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Amazon S3 pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Amazon S3 pricing

6 criteria
Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerIntroductory free tier
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  • Amazon S3 Pricing ↗

    “At account sign-up, you can choose between a free plan and a paid plan. The free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

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.
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  • Amazon S3 pricing ↗

    “The 100 GB free tier for data transfer out to the internet is global and does not apply separately or individually to AWS Regions.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

When the free offer ends6 months after account creation; Free Tier credits expire 12 months after that date.
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  • Amazon S3 Pricing ↗

    “The free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation. [...] All Free Tier credits must be used within 12 months of your account creation date.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Pricing modelPer 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.
Sources (1) →
  • S3 Pricing — AWS ↗

    “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, data management and insights feature pricing, replication pricing, and transform and query feature pricing. [...] Amazon S3 storage usage is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 230 bytes.”

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

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.
Sources (1) →
  • 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

Limits

1 criteria
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.
Sources (1) →
  • 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

Infrastructure

1 criteria
Uptime SLA99.9% 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.
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  • 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

Storage

4 criteria
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.
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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.
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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.
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  • 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

S3-compatible APISupported
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  • S3 Pricing — AWS ↗

    “Object storage built to retrieve any amount of data from anywhere [...] Reference the S3 developer guide for technical details on the following request types: PUT, COPY, POST, LIST, GET, SELECT”

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

Compliance

5 criteria
SOC 2Listed as SOC-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page.
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  • AWS Services in Scope — SOC ↗

    “This webpage provides a list of AWS Services in Scope of AWS assurance programs. [...] Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) ✓ Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) ✓ Amazon Textract ✓”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

ISO 27001Covered 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.
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HIPAAListed as a HIPAA-eligible service on AWS's own reference page.
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  • HIPAA Eligible Services Reference — AWS ↗

    “The services listed below are eligible to create, receive, process, maintain, or transmit electronic protected health information (ePHI). [...] Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) AWS Snowball AWS”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

GDPR / data residencyAWS customers can process personal data on all AWS services in compliance with GDPR, and choose the storage type and geographic region for their data.
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  • GDPR — Amazon Web Services ↗

    “AWS customers can use all AWS services to process personal data [...] in compliance with the GDPR. [...] Customers have control of their customer data. With AWS, customers can: Determine where their customer data will be stored, including the type of storage and geographic region of that storage.”

    Read 2026-09-12 · official site · Report a correction

PCI DSSListed as PCI DSS-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page.
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Amazon S3 pricing questions

How does Amazon S3 charge?

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.

S3 Pricing — AWS · read

Does Amazon S3 have a free tier?

Yes. 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.

Amazon S3 pricing · read

Does the Amazon S3 free offer expire?

6 months after account creation; Free Tier credits expire 12 months after that date.

Amazon S3 Pricing · read

How much does Amazon S3 charge for egress?

$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.

AWS Price List API — AWSDataTransfer, us-east-1 · read

What uptime does Amazon S3 guarantee?

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.

Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement · read

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