Amazon S3 alternatives

Where Amazon S3 stands against these 8

Amazon S3's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Free tier

Yes. 3 of the 5 alternatives that document it have one: Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Tigris.

When the free offer ends

6 months after account creation; Free Tier credits expire 12 months after that dateHighest of the 5 that document it. Next: Azure Blob Storage — 30 days.

Egress over allowance

$0.09 per GB for the first 10 TB a month out to the internet, after a free 100 GB aggregated globally5th cheapest of the 5 that document it. Cheapest: Cloudflare R2 — Free.

Uptime SLA

99.9% for S3 Standard, Express One Zone and the Glacier retrieval classes; 99.0% for Intelligent-Tiering…Joint 2nd highest of the 7 that document it. Highest: Bunny Storage — 99.99% uptime guarantee, with SLA credits on a sliding scale from 99.98% down.

Storage price

$0.023 per GB-month for S3 Standard, first 50 TB, in us-east-17th cheapest of the 7 that document it. Cheapest: IDrive e2 — $0.006 per GB per month, or $6 per TB, tierless — the cheapest published rate here.

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…Joint 4th cheapest of the 5 that document it. Cheapest: Bunny Storage — None.

Minimum storage duration

None on S3 Standard. 30 days on Standard-IA and One Zone-IA, 90 days on Glacier Instant and Flexible…Joint 2nd highest of the 7 that document it. Highest: Wasabi — 90 days on pay-as-you-go.