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AWS (Amazon Web Services) pricing

AWS (Amazon Web Services) publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price
Free
Model
Usage-based
Tiers
2
Free tier
Yes

AWS (Amazon Web Services) plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

AWS (Amazon Web Services) pricing tiers
PlanPriceFeatures listedStep up from the tier below
AWS Free TierFree5Entry tier
Pay-As-You-GoFree5+$0/month, 5 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

AWS Free Tier

Free

The entry tier. It covers ec2 750 hours/month, 5gb s3 storage, 20gb data transfer, rds 750 hours/month, lambda 1m free requests.

Pay-As-You-Go

Free

Over AWS Free Tier, this tier adds:

  • No upfront payment
  • No long-term commitments
  • Pay only for what you use
  • Flexible scaling
  • Global infrastructure

Where AWS (Amazon Web Services) stops being free

AWS Free Tier, Free

  • EC2 750 hours/month
  • 5GB S3 storage
  • 20GB data transfer
  • RDS 750 hours/month
  • Lambda 1M free requests

No paid tier on record

AWS (Amazon Web Services) lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full AWS (Amazon Web Services) feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

  • EC2 - Virtual Servers
  • S3 - Object Storage
  • RDS - Managed Database
  • Lambda - Serverless Computing
  • CloudFront - CDN
  • VPC - Virtual Network
  • IAM - Access Management
  • CloudWatch - Monitoring

Integrations

  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Datadog
  • New Relic
  • Slack

Security

  • SOC2
  • ISO27001
  • HIPAA
  • PCI-DSS
  • GDPR
  • Encryption

Deployment

  • Cloud deployment

Platform

  • Web support
  • Api support
  • Cli support
  • Mobile support

People bring AWS (Amazon Web Services) in for web hosting, data storage, machine learning, big data analytics, application development. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to AWS (Amazon Web Services) are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and Free, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

AWS (Amazon Web Services) runs on web, api, cli, mobile, and is published by Amazon Inc of Seattle, WA. The full record is on the AWS (Amazon Web Services) review.

AWS (Amazon Web Services) pricing on the vendor's own site

AWS (Amazon Web Services) pricing questions

How much does AWS (Amazon Web Services) cost?
AWS (Amazon Web Services) publishes 2 tiers, from Free for AWS Free Tier up to Free for Pay-As-You-Go. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does AWS (Amazon Web Services) have a free plan?
Yes. The AWS Free Tier tier costs nothing and covers ec2 750 hours/month, 5gb s3 storage, 20gb data transfer.
What is the difference between AWS Free Tier and Pay-As-You-Go on AWS (Amazon Web Services)?
Pay-As-You-Go costs Free against Free, and adds no upfront payment, no long-term commitments, pay only for what you use, flexible scaling.
What am I actually paying for with AWS (Amazon Web Services)?
The record lists 26 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for web hosting, data storage, machine learning.
Does AWS (Amazon Web Services) charge per user?
The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these AWS (Amazon Web Services) prices current?
They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare AWS (Amazon Web Services) against before paying?
Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to AWS (Amazon Web Services) to make a useful price comparison.

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