Amazon Web Services S3 – Part 3: Costs and SLA
Simple Storage Service (S3)
Cost
Storage is cheaper in the US than in Europe. If you are based in Europe, you may want to decide which is more important when getting or adding data: price or latency.
|
Storage |
US per GB |
Europe per GB |
|---|---|---|
|
First 50TB/Month |
$0.150 |
$0.180 |
|
Next 50TB/Month |
$0.140 |
$0.170 |
|
Next 400TB/Month |
$0.130 |
$0.160 |
|
Over 500TB/Month |
$0.120 |
$0.150 |
Table 3: S3 Storage Costs
|
Data Transfer |
US per GB |
Europe per GB |
|---|---|---|
|
Transfer Into S3 |
$0.100 |
$0.100 |
|
First 10TB Out of S3 |
$0.170 |
$0.170 |
|
Next 40TB Out of S3 |
$0.130
|
$0.130 |
|
Next 100TB Out of S3 |
$0.110 |
$0.110 |
|
Out over 150TB |
$0.100 |
$0.100 |
Table 4: S3 Data Transfer Costs
|
Requests |
US per 10000 Requests |
Europe per 10000 Request |
|---|---|---|
|
Put, Copy, List, Post |
$0.01 |
$0.012 |
|
Delete (always free) |
$0.00 |
$0.00 |
|
Get and all other requests |
$0.01 |
$0.012 |
Table 5: S3 Request Costs
These prices are accurate as of the time of writing them. As always, verify before making a decision.
SLA
Amazon warrants a 99.9% uptime on a monthly basis. This is a significant uptime percentage. If S3 is not able to meet the uptime guarantee, Amazon will credit your account for the month of service interruption. If the percentage of uptime is between 99% and 99.9%, you will get a 10% credit. If the uptime is less than 99%, the credit is 25%.
You can read the SLA in detail at http://aws.amazon.com/s3-sla/
