AWS Outbound Data Transfer Pricing

They have been reduced by $0.02/GB.

The prices have gotten reduced for data being transferred out of AWS by $0.02, which means two cents for every GB across every single region.

The pricing regarding data that gets transferred out of the following services: S3, EC2, SimpleDB, RDS, VPC, as well as SQS

Level Old Price New Price
First 10 TB per month $0.17/GB $0.15/GB
Next 40 TB per month $0.13 $0.11
Next 100 TB per month $0.11 $0.09
Over 150 TB per month $0.10 $0.08

The pricing for data that gets transferred out of CloudFront is going to be according to what is shown in the table below: (the table shows prices accompanied with the US region; prices found for other regions were reduced as well):

Level Old Price New Price
First 10 TB per month $0.17/GB $0.15/GB
Next 40 TB per month $0.12 $0.10
Next 100 TB per month $0.10 $0.08
Next 100 TB per month $0.09 $0.07
Next 250 TB per month $0.08 $0.06
Next 250 TB per month $0.07 $0.05
Next 250 TB per month $0.06 $0.04
Over 1000 TB per month $0.05 $0.03

The Monthly Calculator can help you with further calculating your required transfer costs for any region you’re in.

AWS is consistently working for lowering its prices for data transfer down in the hopes of becoming ever more effective and efficient in its operations. The delivered cost savings are then passed out to the users as lower prices for their data transfers.

AWS users that intend to utilize Asia Pacific (Tokyo) + Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions are in for some great news. Effective September 1, 2018, we are reducing prices for data transfer prices for data being transferred from Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, and CloudFront were reduced by up to 34 percent in Japan, as well as a 28 percent reduction in prices in Australia.

EC2 + S3 Data Transfers

AWS Outbound Data Transfer Pricing - ec2 and s3 transfer

AWS Outbound Data Transfer Pricing – ec2 and s3 transfer

Check out all the newly stated prices for data transfers being made from EC2 or S3 to the Internet:

EC2 & S3 Data Transfer Out to Internet Japan Australia
Old Rate New Rate Change Old Rate New Rate Change
Up to 1 GB / Month $0.000 $0.000 0% $0.000 $0.000 0%
Next 9.999 TB / Month $0.140 $0.114 -19% $0.140 $0.114 -19%
Next 40 TB / Month $0.135 $0.089 -34% $0.135 $0.098 -27%
Next 100 TB / Month $0.130 $0.086 -34% $0.130 $0.094 -28%
Greater than 150 TB / Month $0.120 $0.084 -30% $0.120 $0.092 -23%

CloudFront Data Transfer Pricing

AWS Outbound Data Transfer Pricing - CloudFront data transfer

AWS Outbound Data Transfer Pricing – CloudFront data transfer


Check out the newly set prices for data being transferred from CloudFront edge nodes to the Internet.

CloudFront Data Transfer Out to the Internet Japan Australia
Old Rate New Rate Change Old Rate New Rate Change
Up to 10 TB / Month $0.140 $0.114 -19% $0.140 $0.114 -19%
Next 40 TB / Month $0.135 $0.089 -34% $0.135 $0.098 -27%
Next 100 TB / Month $0.120 $0.086 -28% $0.120 $0.094 -22%
Next 350 TB / Month $0.100 $0.084 -16% $0.100 $0.092 -8%
Next 524 TB / Month $0.080 $0.080 0% $0.095 $0.090 -5%
Next 4 PB / Month $0.070 $0.070 0% $0.090 $0.085 -6%
Over 5 PB / Month $0.060 $0.060 0% $0.085 $0.080 -6%

Additionally, AWS outbound data transfer pricing has been reduced for the data being transferred from CloudFront to the users’ Origin. In Australia for example, the cost for transferring data via CloudFront to Origin from edge locations was reduced to 20 percent reaching $0.080 for every GB. This reduction includes content uploads made through POST and PUT.

Important notes to keep in mind:

Check out a few facts that may be interesting and important stuff you need to take into consideration when you use AWS data transfer services.

~ Free Tier – The AWS Free Tier is capable of being used by you for the sake of getting started as well as to get to find out more regarding the following services: EC2, S3, CloudFront, and so much more different and interesting other AWS services.

~ Origins to CloudFront Data Transfer – No charge is made for data being transferred from an AWS origin such as EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancing, and so on to whatever CloudFront edge location you choose.

~ Pricing for CloudFront Reserved Capacity – In the case that you consistently tend to utilize CloudFront for delivering 10 TB or even more content each month, you will need to start investigating and taking into consideration the pricing for Reserved Capacity. You are capable of receiving a greatly big discount on the commitment for transferring an amount of 10 TB or more content from merely one region, with more extra discounts for greater levels of usage.

See Also

AWS network data transfer pricing