Object Storage

Storage pricing

You pay for storing objects in your S3 buckets. The rate you’re charged depends on your objects' size, how long you stored the objects during the month, and the storage class – S3 Standard, S3 Standard-Infrequent Access, S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

There are per-request ingest charges when using PUT, COPY, or lifecycle rules to move data into any S3 storage class. Consider the ingest or transition cost before moving objects into any storage class.

Storage Requests and Data Retrieval Pricing are listed below.

	Storage pricing
S3 Standard - General purpose storage for any type of data, typically used for frequently accessed data.
0 - 50 GB / Month	₹0.85 per GB
50 - 500 GB / Month	₹0.82 per GB
500 GB / Month	₹0.78 per GB
S3 Standard - Infrequent Access - For long lived but infrequently accessed data that needs millisecond access.**
All Storage / Month	₹0.47 per GB
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval * - For long-lived archive data accessed once a quarter with instant retrieval in milliseconds.**
All Storage / Month	₹0.17 per GB
S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval * - For long-term backups and archives with retrieval option from 1 minute to 12 hours.**
All Storage / Month	₹0.16 per GB
S3 Glacier Deep Archive * - For long-term data archiving that is accessed once or twice in a year and can be restored within 12 hours.**
All Storage / Month	₹0.07 per GB

S3 Standard-IA storage has a minimum billable object size of 128 KB. Smaller objects may be stored but will be charged for 128 KB of storage at the appropriate storage class rate. S3 Standard-IA storage is charged for a minimum storage duration of 30 days, and objects deleted before 30 days incur a pro-rated charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days. Objects that are deleted, overwritten, or transitioned to a different storage class before 30 days will incur the normal storage usage charge plus a pro-rated charge for the remainder of the 30-day minimum. Objects stored for 30 days or longer will not incur a 30-day minimum charge.

*** For each object that is stored in the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes, AceCloud charges for 40 KB of additional metadata for each archived object, with 8 KB charged at S3 Standard rates and 32 KB charged at S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Deep Archive rates. This allows you to get a real-time list of all of your S3 objects using the S3 LIST API or the S3 Inventory report. S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval has a minimum billable object size of 128 KB. Smaller objects may be stored but will be charged for 128 KB of storage at the appropriate storage class rate. Objects that are archived to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval and S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval are charged for a minimum storage duration of 90 days, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive has a minimum storage duration of 180 days. Objects deleted prior to the minimum storage duration incur a pro-rated charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days. Objects that are deleted, overwritten, or transitioned to a different storage class before the minimum storage duration will incur the normal storage usage charge plus a pro-rated storage charge for the remainder of the minimum storage duration. Objects stored longer than the minimum storage duration will not incur a minimum storage charge.

Requests & data retrievals

You pay for requests made against your S3 buckets and objects. S3 request costs are based on the request type and are charged on the quantity of requests as listed in the table below. When you use the Amazon S3 console to browse your storage, you incur charges for GET, LIST, and other requests that are made to facilitate browsing. Charges are accrued at the same rate as requests that are made using the API/ SDK. Reference the S3 developer guide for technical details on the following request types: PUT, COPY, POST, LIST, GET, SELECT, Lifecycle Transition, and Data Retrievals. DELETE and CANCEL requests are free. LIST requests for any storage class are charged at the same rate as S3 Standard PUT, COPY, and POST requests. You pay for retrieving objects that are stored in S3 Standard – Infrequent Access, S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive. When you restore an archive from the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes, you pay for retrievals as a part of the restore request. When you restore an archive, you are paying for both the archive (charged at the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive rate) and a copy, accessible with GET using the same object key, that you restored temporarily (charged at the S3 Standard storage rate for a duration of time you choose). Reference the S3 developer guide for technical details on Data Retrievals.

S3 Lifecycle Transition request pricing below represents requests to that storage class. For example, transitioning data from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access will be charged $0.005 per 1,000 requests.

	PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests (per 1,000 requests)	GET, SELECT, and all other requests (per 1,000 requests)	Lifecycle transition requests into (per 1,000 requests)	Data retrieval requests (per 1,000 requests)	Data uploads (per GB)	Data retrievals (per GB)
S3 Standard	₹ 0.17	₹ 0.01	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
S3 Standard-Infrequent Access **	₹ 0.34	₹ 0.03	₹ 0.34	n/a	n/a	₹ 0.34
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval ***	₹ 0.68	₹ 0.34	₹ 0.68	n/a	n/a	₹ 1.02
S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval ***	₹ 1.22	₹ 0.01	₹ 1.22	See below	n/a	See below
Expedited	n/a	n/a	n/a	₹ 408.00	n/a	₹ 1.22
Standard	n/a	n/a	n/a	₹ 2.04	n/a	₹ 0.41
Bulk ***	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Provisioned Capacity Unit ****	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	₹ 4,080.00
S3 Glacier Deep Archive ***	₹ 2.38	₹ 0.01	₹ 2.38	See below	n/a	See below
Standard	n/a	n/a	n/a	₹ 4.08	n/a	₹ 0.82
Bulk	n/a	n/a	n/a	₹ 1.02	n/a	₹ 0.17

* S3 Standard-IA are charged for a minimum storage duration of 30 days. Objects that are deleted, overwritten, or transitioned to a different storage class before the minimum storage duration will incur the normal storage usage charge plus a pro-rated charge for the remainder of the minimum storage duration. Objects stored longer than the minimum storage duration will not incur a minimum charge.

** Objects that are archived to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval and S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval are charged for a minimum storage duration of 90 days, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive has a minimum storage duration of 180 days. Objects deleted prior to the minimum storage duration incur a pro-rated charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days. Objects that are deleted, overwritten, or transitioned to a different storage class before the minimum storage duration will incur the normal storage usage charge plus a pro-rated charge for the remainder of the minimum storage duration. Objects stored longer than the minimum storage duration will not incur a minimum charge. S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval Bulk data retrievals and requests are free of charge.

*** Provisioned Capacity Units allow you to provision capacity for expedited retrievals from S3 Glacier for a given month. Each provisioned capacity unit can provide at least three expedited retrievals every five minutes and up to 150 MB/s of retrieval throughput.

Except as otherwise noted, all prices are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties.

S3 storage usage is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 230 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB), defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Similarly, 1 TB is 240 bytes, i.e. 1024 GBs.

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