Pricing and Support

AWS Pricing Examples

This section presents a few examples of pricing in AWS services

AWS Lambda

For AWS Lambda, you are charged based on the number of requests for your functions and the time that it takes for them to run. AWS Lambda allows 1 million free requests and up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month. You can save on AWS Lambda costs by signing up for Compute Savings Plans. Compute Savings Plans offer lower compute costs in exchange for committing to a consistent amount of usage over a 1-year or 3-year term. This is an example of paying less when you reserve.

Amazon EC2

With Amazon EC2, you pay for only the compute time that you use while your instances are running. For some workloads, you can significantly reduce Amazon EC2 costs by using Spot Instances. For example, suppose that you are running a batch processing job that is able to withstand interruptions. Using a Spot Instance would provide you with up to 90% cost savings while still meeting the availability requirements of your workload. You can find additional cost savings for Amazon EC2 by considering Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.

Amazon S3

For Amazon S3 pricing, consider the following cost components:

  • Storage – You pay for only the storage that you use. You are charged the rate to store objects in your Amazon S3 buckets based on your objects’ sizes, storage classes, and how long you have stored each object during the month
  • Requests and data retrievals – You pay for requests made to your Amazon S3 objects and buckets. For example, suppose that you are storing photo files in Amazon S3 buckets and hosting them on a website. Every time a visitor requests the website that includes these photo files, this counts towards requests you must pay for
  • Data transfer – There is no cost to transfer data between different Amazon S3 buckets or from Amazon S3 to other services within the same AWS Region. However, you pay for data that you transfer into and out of Amazon S3, with a few exceptions. There is no cost for data transferred into Amazon S3 from the internet or out to Amazon CloudFront. There is also no cost for data transferred out to an Amazon EC2 instance in the same AWS Region as the Amazon S3 bucket
  • Management and replication – You pay for the storage management features that you have enabled on your account’s Amazon S3 buckets. These features include Amazon S3 inventory, analytics, and object tagging

Billing dashboard

Use the AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard to pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and analyze and control your costs

  • Compare your current month-to-date balance with the previous month, and get a forecast of the next month based on current usage
  • View month-to-date spend by service
  • View Free Tier usage by service
  • Access Cost Explorer and create budgets
  • Purchase and manage Savings Plans
  • Publish AWS Cost and Usage Reports

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