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Amazon S3 Cookbook (n)

By : Naoya Hashimoto
Book Image

Amazon S3 Cookbook (n)

By: Naoya Hashimoto

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Amazon S3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

How to calculate and estimate S3 costs with the AWS calculator


This section introduces the S3 pricing model and see how the cost differs following three scenarios; the first scenario is an assumption that download and upload requests accessing for contents on an S3 bucket, the second one is download and upload requests for Standard Storage and Reduced Redundancy Storage, and the third one is the same requests for an mixed environment with S3 and CloudFront.

Getting ready

Before using the AWS calculator, you need to learn about the Amazon S3 pricing model. Mainly, the S3 price comprises storage, requests, and data transfer and it differs by region (based on the location of your S3 bucket). Let's examine storage pricing, request pricing, and data transfer pricing shown at the official site, assuming that we use the US standard region and there is no AWS free tier in place.

The following table will show you the storage pricing of Amazon S3:

Data Transfer (month)

Standard Storage (per GB)

Reduced...