How much does S3 cost per GB?

S3 Standard costs $0.023 per GB per month in us-east-1, roughly $23.55 for 1 TB of storage. That's storage only, before request fees and data transfer. Costs vary sharply by storage class: from $0.023/GB (Standard) to $0.00099/GB (Glacier Deep Archive), a 23x spread. For AI workloads, the right class depends on how often you access training data and whether your jobs need millisecond or 12-hour retrieval.

S3 is not free, but new AWS accounts get $200 in credits valid for 6 months (as of July 15, 2025) applicable across all AWS services, including S3. Accounts created before July 15, 2025 keep the original free tier: 5 GB Standard storage, 20,000 GET requests, and 2,000 PUT requests per month for 12 months. After the free tier or credits expire, you pay for what you use, there's no minimum monthly charge and no charge for empty buckets.

What is S3 Vectors and how much does it cost?

S3 Vectors is purpose-built storage for AI vector embeddings: RAG pipelines, semantic search, AI agent memory. It launched generally available in December 2025 and scales to 2 billion vectors per index. Pricing covers three dimensions: $0.06/GB per month for storage, $0.20/GB for PUT operations, and a per-query charge based on index size. AWS claims up to 90% lower cost versus standalone vector databases like Pinecone, roughly $0.28/month to store 1 million 1,024-dimension vectors, versus Pinecone's $50/month minimum. Integrates with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and SageMaker. Available in 14 regions.

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