Amazon Web Services pricing
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The largest cloud provider. Deep service catalog and global regions, but list prices for storage and especially egress are among the highest, and the bill is famously hard to predict.
Data as of June 2026.
Amazon Web Services pricing at a glance
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| Object storage | $0.023/GB-mo (S3 Standard) |
| Egress to internet | $0.09/GB |
| Cheapest VM | $3.50/mo (AWS Lightsail / t4g.nano) |
| Managed Postgres | $15.00/mo (db.t4g.micro (2 vCPU / 1 GB) single-AZ + 20 GB gp3) |
Vendor pricing as of June 2026 — estimate, verify on the provider pricing page. List prices change frequently and vary by region.
Object storage tiers
| Storage tier | $/GB-month |
|---|---|
| S3 Standard (first 50 TB) | $0.023/GB |
| S3 Standard-Infrequent Access | $0.0125/GB |
| S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval | $0.004/GB |
Source: Amazon Web Services pricing. Data as of June 2026.
Class A (PUT/COPY/POST/LIST) $0.005/1k; Class B (GET) $0.0004/1k. 5 GB free for 12 months only.
Egress / data transfer
Internet egress: $0.09/GB. First 100 GB/mo free, then ~$0.09/GB up to 10 TB, tapering to ~$0.05/GB at very high volume. Cross-region and inter-AZ transfer also billed. See the full egress comparison.
Compute / VPS plans
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightsail 512 MB / 2 vCPU | 2 | 0.5 GB | $3.50/mo |
| Lightsail 1 GB / 2 vCPU | 2 | 1 GB | $5.00/mo |
| EC2 t4g.nano 0.5 GB (on-demand) | 2 | 0.5 GB | $3.07/mo |
Source: Amazon Web Services pricing. Data as of June 2026.
t2/t3.micro 750 hrs/mo for 12 months; always-free does not include a full VM.
Managed Postgres
RDS for PostgreSQL — from $15.00/mo (db.t4g.micro (2 vCPU / 1 GB) single-AZ + 20 GB gp3). ~$0.016/hr instance (~$12/mo) + storage + backup; ~$15/mo all-in. Aurora Serverless v2 bills per ACU-hour. See the Postgres comparison.
Compare AWS with others
$0.02/GB-mo storage
Microsoft Azure$0.018/GB-mo storage
Cloudflare$0.015/GB-mo storage
Backblaze$0.006/GB-mo storage
Wasabi$0.0069/GB-mo storage
DigitalOcean$0.02/GB-mo storage
Frequently asked questions
How much does AWS object storage cost?
Amazon Web Services's S3 Standard costs $0.023/GB-month (~$23.00/TB). Egress to the internet is $0.09/GB. Class A (PUT/COPY/POST/LIST) $0.005/1k; Class B (GET) $0.0004/1k. 5 GB free for 12 months only.
Does AWS charge for egress?
Yes. Amazon Web Services charges about $0.09/GB for internet egress. First 100 GB/mo free, then ~$0.09/GB up to 10 TB, tapering to ~$0.05/GB at very high volume. Cross-region and inter-AZ transfer also billed.
What is the cheapest AWS VM?
Amazon Web Services's cheapest small VM is the AWS Lightsail / t4g.nano from $3.50/mo. t2/t3.micro 750 hrs/mo for 12 months; always-free does not include a full VM.
How much is managed Postgres on AWS?
Amazon Web Services's RDS for PostgreSQL starts at about $15.00/mo for the db.t4g.micro (2 vCPU / 1 GB) single-AZ + 20 GB gp3. ~$0.016/hr instance (~$12/mo) + storage + backup; ~$15/mo all-in. Aurora Serverless v2 bills per ACU-hour.
Source
All figures are Amazon Web Services's published list prices captured June 2026 from its pricing page. Prices change frequently and vary by region — confirm before you commit spend. See our methodology. All figures are estimates, not quotes.
Last updated: 2026-06-18