I am trying out Amazon S3 for my file uploads and would like to store different buckets for development, test and production environments. In amazon documentation it was mentioned the following statement
As part of the AWS Free Usage Tier,
you can get started with Amazon S3 for
free. Upon sign-up, new AWS customers
receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage,
20,000 Get Requests, 2,000 Put
Requests, 15GB of data transfer in,
and 15GB of data transfer out each
month for one year.
Is there any limitation about the number of buckets. I mean if I have three buckets and If I use within the overall storage limit, will I be charged.
Each account in AWS is limited to 100 buckets -- even if you are paying the normal usage rates.
Buckets are not billable items in S3.
If the limit of 100 is not enough you can create virtual folders in your buckets and structure your environment that way.
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I'm currently surprised by a pretty high daily AWS S3 cost of over 31 USD per day (I expected 9 USD - 12 USD per month):
I'm using eu-central-1
All buckets combined are less than 400 GB
No replication
The best explanation I have is that the number of requests was way higher than expected. But I don't know how I can confirm this. How can I narrow down the source of AWS S3 cost?
Is it possible to see the costs by bucket?
Is it possible to see a breakdown by storage / requests / transfers / other features like replication?
First pay attention to the factors on which AWS S3 charges - i.e. based on storage, how many requests s3 is getting, data transfer and retrieval.
Some of the ways for cutting and keep track on the cost -
Delete the previous version of the buckets if you don't need that.
Move the data to different s3 storage based on frequency of data retrieval.
activate the cost allocation tags on your buckets so that you can review the cost on individual bucket.
create an S3 Storage Lens dashboard for all the buckets in your account.
I created two buckets back in 2018 but never removed them. Rest assured that they are empty buckets with no files at all.
I didn't see any fee charged, so I presume Amazon/AWS didn't charge for simply creating S3 buckets?
S3 pricing is based on object storage, not buckets. You can read more about S3 pricing on the AWS S3 pricing page here.
Well, even though you're not charged for the bucket itself, you can still incur some charges related to them.
There are six Amazon S3 cost components to consider when storing and managing your data—storage pricing, request and data retrieval pricing, data transfer and transfer acceleration pricing, data management and analytics pricing, replication pricing, and the price to process your data with S3 Object Lambda. For my details about the pricing model, check it out here
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!
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).
I was looking around to learn about Do and Don'ts of Amazon S3 and was looking at options on how to monitor usage daily. I have couple of questions here:
I see on the Amazon S3 pricing page that PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST Requests are $0.005 per 1,000 requests
I have 5 buckets in S3 and each of these buckets have sub folders having 100k files.
If I do aws s3 ls --recursive will I be charged
5*100k=500000/1000 = 500*0.005 = $2.50?
Any suggestions on tools that can be used to email daily usage rate of my S3 bucket?
A LIST request can return up to 1000 objects. Therefore, to obtain the full list of 100k objects, it would require 100 LIST requests. That would consume a tenth of the initial $0.005 charge.
If you were to repeat this for 5 buckets, it would require 500 LIST requests, which would consume of half of the initial $0.005 charge.
Alternatively you could use Amazon S3 Storage Inventory, which can provide a daily/weekly CSV file that contains a list of all your objects. It is charged at $0.0025 per million objects listed (per bucket per run).
I sense that you are worried about your Amazon S3 costs. You can configure billing alerts and notifications to remain aware of when your costs rise above expected levels. This works for all AWS services.
See:
Monitoring Charges with Alerts and Notifications
Create a Billing Alarm to Monitor Your Estimated AWS Charges
Im studing aws pricing and I have some doubts.
About Amazon S3, it says that we pay $0.03 per gb per month.
But for example If I use only 256kb of storage, 256kb = 0.000256gb, using AWS S3 calculator it says that the cost is $0.00. So for small amounts of storage is always free??
And I have my s3 bucket configured with glacier class, so when I store this 256kb of data in s3, after 1 day this data is stored in glacier. So in this case, using 256kb for a day in s3 and then store in glacier, I dont pay nothing for s3 and glacier?
And also about Amazon S3 it says that we pay for get requests and for data transfer out from Amazon S3 To internet, If I acess for example a file inside my bucket from for example this link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/uploadedfiles/test/file.txt, it is a get request or data transfer out from Amazon S3 to internet??
And just one more about dynamoDB, it says that first 25GB stored per month is free, it is always free? Or it is just free for free tier?
S3 is free for 12 months for up to 5GB per month.
DynamoDB is 25GB per month for up to 12 months on the free tier.
Glacier is not part of the free tier program.
If I access for example a file inside my bucket from for example this
link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/uploadedfiles/test/file.txt, it
is a get request or data transfer out from Amazon S3 to internet??
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That is both a S3 GET request and a S3 data transfer out.
AWS has each item and how much the FREE tier provides broken out on this page
http://aws.amazon.com/free/faqs/
http://aws.amazon.com/free/
Using the calculator with 256kb will not give you realistic results. That's like using a mortgage calculator on a $0.01 loan.
Try using the AWS calculator http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html with 3 GB at least. Still with the AWS free tier you can do a lot for your first year and pay zero dollars to Amazon.