Storage Classes

S3 Standard

• Default storage class.

• For performance-sensitive use cases and frequently accessed data - Low latency and high throughput performance.

• 99.999999999% (11 9s) Durability.

• 99.99% availability over a given year - Objects stored across at least 3 Availability Zones.

• If objects are stored successfully, AWS responds with a HTTP 200 OK status.

	Price
First 50 TB / Month	$0.023 per GB
Data Transfer Inbound	Free
Data Transfer Outbound	~ $0.08 per GB
1000 PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests	$0.005
Retrieval Fees	None

S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

• For less frequently accessed data but requires rapid access when needed.

• 99.999999999% (11 9s) Durability.

• 99.99% availability over a given year - Objects stored across at least 3 Availability Zones.

	Price
All Storage / Month	$0.0125 per GB
Data Transfer Inbound	Free
Data Transfer Outbound	~ $0.08 per GB
1000 PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests	$0.01
Retrieval Fees	$0.01 per GB
Minimum Billable Object Size	128KB
Minimum Billable Storage Duration	30 days

S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)

• For less frequently accessed data but requires rapid access when needed, such as storing secondary backup copies of on-premises data or easily re-creatable data.

• DOES NOT store data in a minimum of three Availability Zones (AZs) - Stores data in a single AZ.

• Lower-cost option for infrequently accessed data but do not require the availability and resilience of S3 Standard or S3 Standard-IA.

• 99.999999999% (11 9s) Durability of objects in a single Availability Zone (data will be lost if AZ is destroyed).

• 99.5% availability over a given year.

	Price
All Storage / Month	$0.01 per GB
Data Transfer Inbound	Free
Data Transfer Outbound	~ $0.08 per GB
1000 PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests	$0.01
Retrieval Fees	$0.01 per GB
Minimum Billable Object Size	128KB
Minimum Billable Storage Duration	30 days

S3 Glacier

• Secure, durable, and low-cost storage class for data archiving.

• Retrieval times range from minutes to hours

• 99.999999999% (11 9s) Durability.

• 3 Types of retrieval options:

  • Expedited - 1-5 minutes.

  • Standard - 3-5 hours.

  • Bulk - 5-12 hours.

  	Price
  All Storage / Month	$0.004 per GB
  Data Transfer Inbound	Free
  Data Transfer Outbound	~ $0.08 per GB
  1000 PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests	$0.05
  Retrieval Fees	Depends on retrieval option
  Minimum Billable Object Size	40KB
  Minimum Billable Storage Duration	90 days

S3 Glacier Deep Archive

• For long-term retention and digital preservation for data that is accessed very rarely.

• Also used for backup and disaster recovery.

• 99.999999999% (11 9s) Durability.

• 3 Types of retrieval options:

  • Standard - 12 hours.

  • Bulk - Up to 48 hours.

• 	Price
  All Storage / Month	$0.00099 per GB
  Data Transfer Inbound	Free
  Data Transfer Outbound	~ $0.08 per GB
  1000 PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests	$0.05
  Retrieval Fees	Depends on retrieval option
  Minimum Billable Object Size	40KB
  Minimum Billable Storage Duration	180 days

S3 Intelligent-Tiering

• Automatically optimizes storage costs for data with unknown or changing access patterns.

• Stores objects in four access tiers, optimized for frequent, infrequent, archive, and deep archive access - Frequent and Infrequent Access tiers have same low latency and high throughput performance of S3 Standard. Archive access and deep Archive access tiers have same performance as Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive.

• 99.999999999% (11 9s) Durability.

• 99.9% availability over a given year.

• 		Price
  	All Storage / Month	Depends on access tier used.
  	Data Transfer Inbound	Free
  	Data Transfer Outbound	~ $0.08 per GB
  	1000 PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests	$0.005
  	Retrieval Fees	None
  	Minimum Billable Storage Duration	30 days