About
Amazon S3 is an object storage service designed to store, manage, analyze, and protect data at virtually any scale. It supports a wide range of workloads, including data lakes, cloud-native applications, mobile apps, backup and archive workflows, AI and analytics pipelines, and semantic search.
The service provides multiple storage classes and management capabilities to help organizations balance performance, durability, security, and cost. It also includes specialized capabilities for table data, vector storage, file access, replication, transfer acceleration, and storage analytics.
- Highly scalable object storage with strong durability and availability
- Multiple storage classes for frequent, infrequent, archival, and high-performance access patterns
- Security, encryption, access control, and auditing capabilities
- Support for analytics, AI, backup, archive, and application data workloads
- Specialized offerings including S3 Tables, S3 Vectors, S3 Files, and transfer acceleration
Free Tier Value
The page and extracted bullets indicate a free credit offer, not an always-free tier: eligible AWS services including Amazon S3 receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits, the free plan lasts 6 months after account creation, and credits expire within 12 months. Per the free_credit rule, the conservative monthly FTV is credit_amount/3, so $200/3 = $66.67 per month. Pricing is usage-based with no minimum charge, and the page does not explicitly state no-credit-card-required, so that remains false.
What's included in the free tier
- Up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits for eligible AWS services, including Amazon S3.
- Free plan available for 6 months after account creation.
- Credits must be used within 12 months of account creation.
- Remaining Free Tier credits automatically apply to AWS bills if you upgrade to a paid plan.
See Amazon S3 pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Amazon S3
- free internet egress
- first 100 GB/month
- free tier credits
- up to $200
- free plan duration
- 6 months after account creation
- credit validity
- 12 months after account creation
- No minimum charge
- Storage pricing varies by storage class
- Request and data retrieval pricing
- Data transfer and transfer acceleration pricing
- Data management and insights feature pricing
- Replication pricing
- Transform and query feature pricing
Pricing extracted from Amazon S3's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
