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Sheldon Green
Sheldon Green

Reputation: 13

Pricing Structure of Amazon S3 AWS

I'm a newb at this and just want a clear understanding of how price is calculated.

I want to uses s3 cloud storage so that people can upload video, let's say 5 gb per day, we download the video, make changes and upload again for the person to retrieve.

That is 4x upload/download. Would that be 20gb transfer total? AWS on the high cost allows 100gb transfer per month (https://www.hostingadvice.com/how-to/aws-s3-pricing/). If each day our transfer is 20gb that will add up pretty fast.

Is there a more cost effective way to do cloud storage?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 981

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 270194

Pricing for Amazon S3 can be found at: S3 Pricing by Region | Amazon Simple Storage Service

The data transfer costs incurred would be:

  • Upload from Internet to S3: Zero
  • Download from S3 to an Amazon EC2 instance in the same region (for processing): Zero
  • Upload from EC2 to S3 in same region: Zero
  • Download from Amazon S3 to Internet: 9c/GB (in USA, but varies elsewhere!)

For a 5GB file, total data transfer costs: 5 x 9c = 45c

There would also be storage costs (2.3c/GB per month) and request pricing (way under 1c).

Upvotes: 1

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