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bonh
bonh

Reputation: 2956

Does AWS charge for duplicate objects in an S3 bucket?

My understanding is that S3 is an object store, and "paths" are really just keys pointing to an object.

If I make a copy of a file in the same bucket, will I incur a cost for both copies of that object?

This seems to indicate that two objects will have different metadata, so they are different -- but AWS also considers "metadata" to be different than "data".

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1663

Answers (1)

Arafat Nalkhande
Arafat Nalkhande

Reputation: 11718

Yes you are right "S3 is an object store, and 'paths' are really just keys pointing to an object." But when you create 2 paths they actually are pointing to 2 different objects (even if objects are exact replicas of each other)

So you will incur cost of storing 2 objects

Upvotes: 5

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