AWS Pricing Overview
AWS offers customers a pay-as-you-go approach for pricing for the vast majority of cloud services.
With AWS, customers pay only for the individual services they need, for as long as they use them, and without requiring long-term contracts or complex licensing.
AWS Pricing Concepts Video
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Pay As You Go
With pay as you go, you can adapt to changing business needs and reduce the risk of overprovisioning or missing capacity.
Pay only for the resources that you use.
Save When You Commit
For certain services, such as Compute services on AWS, Savings Plans offer savings over On-Demand prices when you commit to a 1-year or 3-year plan.
Pay Less By Using More
With AWS, you can realize important savings as your usage increases.
For some services, pricing is tiered, meaning the more you use, the less you pay.
Driving Factors of Cost
There are three fundamental drivers of cost with AWS:
Compute
For compute resources, you pay by a certain span of time, like by the hour or by the second.
Unless you've made a reservation for which the cost is agreed upon beforehand, you pay from the time you launch a resource until the time you stop the instance.
Storage
Pricing for storage largely depends on how much storage you have provisioned or how much you are using.
For some storage options, such as Amazon S3, storage cost is tiered. This means you can optimize storage costs based on how frequently and quickly you need to access data.
Data Transfer
In most cases, there is no charge for inbound data transfer or for data transfer between AWS services within the same Region.
Outbound data transfer is aggregated across services and then charged at the outbound data transfer rate.
The more data you transfer, the less you pay per gigabyte.
Pricing examples:
- AWS Lambda Pricing
- AWS EC2 Pricing
- AWS S3 Pricing
