AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Storage and Data Transfer Pricing

Learn how AWS prices storage and data transfer: what drives an S3 or EBS bill, and the data transfer rule that catches people out, with inbound free and outbound charged.

Beginner 15 minutes 4 Learning Objectives
  1. Identify the cost components of Amazon S3 pricing
  2. Explain how EBS volumes and snapshots are billed and how that differs from S3
  3. Describe which data transfer is free and which is charged
  4. Apply the data transfer rule to common scenarios