

How to deal with AWS storage costįirst, use the appropriate type of storage based on each workload's needs. There is also a $0.03 per GB fee for restoring a snapshot from archive storage. Snapshots stored on standard storage incur a fee of $0.05 per GB per month, while snapshots on archive storage cost $0.0125 per GB per month. The AWS storage cost for snapshots also varies by type. Pricing ranges from $0.015 per GB per month for cold HDD (sc1) volumes to $0.08 per GB per month for general-purpose SSD (gp3) storage. The main factor that influences the price is the volume type. The price varies depending on storage use. EBSĮlastic Block Store (EBS) is Amazon's high-performance block storage, primarily for the virtual hard disks used by Elastic Compute Cloud instances and instance snapshots. The price drops to $0.16 per GB per month for single-zone storage and to $0.0133 per month for single-zone storage that is infrequently accessed. East (Ohio) region costs $0.30 per GB per month, while infrequently accessed data costs $0.025 per GB per month. Other factors can affect the price, such as whether the file system is in a single zone, the provisioned throughput and how the user backs up the data.Īs a general guideline, standard storage in the U.S. Amazon largely determines EFS pricing by region and data access frequency. EFSĪmazon's Elastic File System (EFS) is a cloud-based, serverless file server for unstructured data. East (Ohio) region to $0.0065 per GB per month, while SSD storage cost reduces to $0.065 per month. Amazon's pricing assumes a savings of 50% and reduces the cost of HDD storage in the U.S. The cost of FSx storage decreases with deduplication. Backup storage is $0.05 per GB per month. The throughput capacity costs $2.20 per MBps per month.

East (Ohio) region, for example, HDD storage costs $0.013 per GB per month, while SSD storage costs $0.13 per GB per month. Pricing is based on region, storage type (HDD or SSD), throughput capacity and backup use. FSx is Amazon's Windows file server storage.
