# Amazon S3 pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** Quote-only — no self-serve price published.
**Domain:** aws.amazon.com
**Free tier:** No
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** AWS Lambda (Object Lambda), AWS Athena, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, AWS CloudFront, Amazon Macie, AWS DataSync, Terraform
**Best for:** Enterprise data lakes and analytics at petabyte scale; HIPAA/compliance-regulated workloads requiring BAA; ML/AI training datasets and RAG pipelines; Long-term archival with Glacier Deep Archive

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| S3 Standard (pay-as-you-go) | Quote-only | — | custom | Storage: $0.023/GB-month (first 50 TB/month), $0.022/GB-month (next 450 TB), $0.021/GB-month (over 500 TB). Data transfer out to internet: $0.09/GB (first 10 TB/month), $0.085/GB (next 40 TB), $0.07/GB (next 100 TB), $0.05/GB (over 150 TB). PUT/COPY/POST requests: $0.005 per 1,000. GET requests: $0.0004 per 1,000. First 100 GB egress/month free. No minimum fee. | pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com |
| S3 Standard-IA (pay-as-you-go) | Quote-only | — | custom | Storage: $0.0125/GB-month. Retrieval fee: $0.01/GB. PUT requests: $0.01 per 1,000. GET requests: $0.001 per 1,000. 30-day minimum storage duration; 128 KB minimum billable object size. | pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com |
| S3 Glacier Deep Archive (pay-as-you-go) | Quote-only | — | custom | Storage: $0.00099/GB-month. Retrieval: standard 12-hour restore, fee applies. 180-day minimum storage duration. Ideal for compliance/long-term archiving. | pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com |

**Key features:** Strong read-after-write consistency for all objects; S3 Storage Lens for org-wide usage analytics and cost optimization; Purpose-built table buckets (analytics) and vector buckets (semantic search); S3 Object Lock for WORM compliance; Lifecycle policies for automatic tiering to Glacier/Deep Archive.

**Plan limits:** Free tier: 5 GB storage, 20,000 GET requests, 2,000 PUT requests, 100 GB data transfer out per month (first 12 months only); First 100 GB egress to internet free per month always; Maximum object size: 5 TB; Up to 3,500 PUT/s and 5,500 GET/s per prefix.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official AWS S3 pricing page (aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing) rendered JS-only tables not extractable; per-GB storage rates confirmed from AWS official pricing CSV at pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/current/us-east-1/index.csv (effective 2026-06-01). Egress rate corroborated via cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-storage-pricing. Request prices extracted from aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing page text.
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