Does Amazon price for GB storage reset every month? Say in January I used 1000GB of storage and pay it off for $40. Do I get charged $40 in February even if I don’t use any storage or do I pay $0 in February? Basically is AWS storage price static or does it reset every month?
CodePudding user response：
Amazon S3 is charged on two main dimensions:
- Storage: A charge for the amount of data kept in Amazon S3, charged per GB per month
- Requests: A charge for the number of requests made to S3, charged per 1000 requests
If you keep 1000GB of data in Amazon S3 as Standard storage charged as $0.023 per GB, then you would be charged 1000 x $0.023 = $23 for that month of storage.
If you kept 1000GB of data in Amazon S3 for half a month, then it would be only half that cost.
Think of it like parking your car in a parking garage -- they charge you for every hour that you keep your car parked. However, if your car isn't parked in the garage, then they don't charge you anything.
CodePudding user response：
Building off of @john answer since he kind of went off par with the last section.
Amazon S3 is charged on two main dimensions:
Storage: A charge for the amount of data kept in Amazon S3, charged per GB per month.
Requests: A charge for the number of requests made to S3, charged per 1000 requests.
If you keep 1000GB of data in Amazon S3 as Standard storage charged as $0.023 per GB in January, then you would be charged 1000 x $0.023 = $23 in January for that storage.
If you kept the same 1000GB of data in Amazon S3 for February, then you would be charged 1000 x $0.023 = $23 in February for that storage even if you didn’t add anything to you storage in February.
Meaning Amazon S3 storage price is static and doesn’t reset every month.