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S3 cost calculator: every storage class, restore included

Amazon S3 prices checked · US East and Frankfurt

S3 Standard costs $292.32 a month for 10 TB in US East (N. Virginia); S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval costs least, at $170.01.

Which S3 bill are you looking at?
Cheapest for a normal month

Amazon S3 · Glacier Instant Retrieval US East (N. Virginia)

$170.01 a normal month

$1,297.60on the month you restore

Cheapest month you restore: Amazon S3 One Zone-IA $1,116.59

42% less than Amazon S3 Standard, which costs $292.32 for the same month.

Calculated from the provider's listed rates, not a quote. Checked 24 October 2026

Archive storage is left out: backup tools such as restic, Kopia and Veeam read their repository directly, and archive storage makes them restore each file first.

Workload behind this answer10 TB backed up · 1 TB downloaded a month · 10 TB in a restore · 1,000 Mbps · readable at once · any listed region

10 TB backed up; 1 TB downloaded in a normal month; 10 TB downloaded in a restore; 1,000 Mbps download speed; data readable at once, with no restore step; no deadline for everything to be back; any listed region.

Other defaults: 1,000,000 objects; 0 TB upload; 500,000 Class A / 2,000,000 Class B operations; each vendor's standard restore speed; the public internet destination; restored copy for 24 h; 365-day object age; no free tier; object lock not required; S3-compatible API not required.

Lowest normal-month totals

  1. 1Amazon S3
    Normal
    $170.01
    Restore
    $1,297.60

    Ready at once · all back in 22 h at the soonest · meets your limits

    What decides it: Downloads (egress) ($74.82).

Example figures for a 10 TB backup. Change any field to price your own.

Requests, recovery limits and other inputs 10 settings

The listed S3 prices on this page use US East. The restored copy is kept for 24 hours and the typical object age is 365 days; use the backup storage cost calculator when those constraints or cross-provider eligibility are the decision.

A restore can change the winner

Same offer, two bills. Vertical positions show cost rank within these 8 offers.

Lowest normal bill$170.01S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval · US East (N. Virginia)

Lowest restore bill$1,116.59S3 One Zone-IA · US East (N. Virginia)

Normal monthRestore month
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval · US East (N. Virginia)$170.01
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval · EU (Frankfurt)$179.32
S3 One Zone-IA · US East (N. Virginia)$184.26
S3 One Zone-IA · EU (Frankfurt)$191.72
S3 Standard-IA · US East (N. Virginia)$207.55
S3 Standard-IA · EU (Frankfurt)$216.86
S3 Standard · US East (N. Virginia)$292.32
S3 Intelligent-Tiering · US East (N. Virginia)$294.82
S3 One Zone-IA · US East (N. Virginia)$1,116.59
S3 One Zone-IA · EU (Frankfurt)$1,124.04
S3 Standard · US East (N. Virginia)$1,130.91
S3 Intelligent-Tiering · US East (N. Virginia)$1,133.41
S3 Standard-IA · US East (N. Virginia)$1,139.87
S3 Standard-IA · EU (Frankfurt)$1,149.18
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval · US East (N. Virginia)$1,297.60
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval · EU (Frankfurt)$1,306.91
Every bill in the chart
OfferNormal monthRestore month
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval · US East (N. Virginia)$170.01$1,297.60
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval · EU (Frankfurt)$179.32$1,306.91
S3 One Zone-IA · US East (N. Virginia)$184.26$1,116.59
S3 One Zone-IA · EU (Frankfurt)$191.72$1,124.04
S3 Standard-IA · US East (N. Virginia)$207.55$1,139.87
S3 Standard-IA · EU (Frankfurt)$216.86$1,149.18
S3 Standard · US East (N. Virginia)$292.32$1,130.91
S3 Intelligent-Tiering · US East (N. Virginia)$294.82$1,133.41
Thicker blue lines cross another offer. Thin lines keep their order. The heaviest line marks the lowest normal-month bill. Unpublished totals are not drawn.

How much more the restore month costs

Normal month to restore month
normal $170.01restore month $1,297.60

The month you restore: 7.6 times this vendor's quiet month.

Back online: 22 h at the soonestData ready: Ready at once

Recovery time, price date, and sourceshow details

Restoring everything costs 7.6 times a quiet month with this vendor. That multiple, not the storage rate, is what a backup decision turns on.

Back online
22 h at the soonest
Data ready
Ready at once
Prices checked
24 October 2026

This vendor publishes a downloadable price feed, so its prices can be checked more often.

Every Amazon S3 class and region

Amazon S3's cheapest class and region for your workload, with every other one listed under it. 12 of 16 have every price the bill needs and meet your limits; the other 4 show what is known and name the missing price or the limit they miss.

Every offer, each storage class and region ranked16 offers

Ranked offers come first. Offers we cannot rank stay in the list, with the missing price or the requirement they miss.

  • 1Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrievalus-east-1$170.01
  • 2Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrievaleu-central-1$179.32
  • 3Amazon S3 One Zone-IAus-east-1$184.26
  • 4Amazon S3 One Zone-IAeu-central-1$191.72
  • 5Amazon S3 Standard-IAus-east-1$207.55
  • 6Amazon S3 Standard-IAeu-central-1$216.86
  • 7Amazon S3 Standardus-east-1$292.32
  • 8Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tieringus-east-1$294.82
  • 9Amazon S3 Standardeu-central-1$306.55
  • 10Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tieringeu-central-1$309.05
  • 11Amazon S3 Express One Zoneus-east-1$1,100.46
  • 12Amazon S3 Express One Zoneeu-central-1$1,175.05
  • ·Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrievalus-east-1Normal$139.46Restore$1,128.32Misses your limitsEach file has to be restored before it can be read, which takes up to 5 hours, and you asked for storage you can read at once.
  • ·Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archiveus-east-1Normal$139.39Restore$1,271.38Misses your limitsEach file has to be restored before it can be read, which takes up to 12 hours, and you asked for storage you can read at once.
  • ·Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrievaleu-central-1Normal$149.64Restore$1,167.63Misses your limitsEach file has to be restored before it can be read, which takes up to 5 hours, and you asked for storage you can read at once.
  • ·Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archiveeu-central-1Normal$157.80Restore$1,347.54Misses your limitsEach file has to be restored before it can be read, which takes up to 12 hours, and you asked for storage you can read at once.

Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval line by line

Every charge, how it is worked out, and the restore time$170.01 in 5 lines
Normal-month bill, line by lineAmazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval US East (N. Virginia), priced per GB, normal month
Storage $37.25Requests $30.00Downloads (egress) $74.82Retrieval and restored copy $27.94Fixed fees $0.00
Normal month total$170.01

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Vendor wait and download

22.2 hEverything back, at the soonest

Vendor gets data readyReady at once

Download at your speedat least 22.2 h

Data in this class can be read at once, with no restore step, so the soonest it can all be back is the download at your full 1000 Mbps. The vendor does not publish how fast it serves a whole restore, so a real restore can take longer.

Restore time in detail
Shortest wait0 h
Longest wait0 h
Download time (at least)22.2 h
Everything back, at the soonest22.2 h
With the longest wait, at the soonest22.2 h
Blue shows the vendor's published wait, hatched where it can run longer; orange shows the download at your speed. Dashed parts are not published. A real restore can take longer.
Time to recovery

At least 22 h before the last file arrives, at the vendor's standard restore speed

022 h
Vendor gets data ready
Ready at once
Download at your speed
22 h

Data in this class can be read at once, with no restore step, so the soonest it can all be back is the download at your full 1000 Mbps. The vendor does not publish how fast it serves a whole restore, so a real restore can take longer.

This calculator prices Amazon S3 only. The backup storage cost calculator compares S3 with every other vendor on the same workload, and the Amazon S3 pricing page shows each class's rules with their sources. Running an application too? Compare S3 with EC2.

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The 10 TB example, fixed for citation

Version 1

This fixed copy uses the 10 TB example above, with the same prices and bills as the calculator.

Assumptions: 10 TB backed up; 1 TB downloaded in a normal month; 10 TB restored; 1,000 Mbps download speed; data readable at once, with no restore step; no deadline for everything to be back; any listed region; 1,000,000 files; 0 TB uploaded; 500,000 Class A requests; 2,000,000 Class B requests; each vendor's standard restore speed; the public internet destination; restored copy kept for 24 h; 365-day object age; no free tier; object lock not required; S3-compatible API not required.

Normal month

$170.01

Cheapest of the 16 S3 offers

Normal-month bill, line by lineAmazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval US East (N. Virginia), priced per GB, normal month
Storage $37.25Requests $30.00Downloads (egress) $74.82Retrieval and restored copy $27.94Fixed fees $0.00
Normal month total$170.01

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Time to recovery

At least 22 h before the last file arrives, at the vendor's standard restore speed

022 h
Vendor gets data ready
Ready at once
Download at your speed
22 h

Data in this class can be read at once, with no restore step, so the soonest it can all be back is the download at your full 1000 Mbps. The vendor does not publish how fast it serves a whole restore, so a real restore can take longer.

Month you restore

$1,116.59

Cheapest of the 16 S3 offers

Restore-month bill, line by lineAmazon S3 One Zone-IA US East (N. Virginia), priced per GB, month you restore
Storage $93.13Requests $8.00Downloads (egress) $913.01Retrieval and restored copy $102.45Fixed fees $0.00
Month you restore total$1,116.59

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Time to recovery

At least 22 h before the last file arrives, at the vendor's standard restore speed

022 h
Vendor gets data ready
Ready at once
Download at your speed
22 h

Data in this class can be read at once, with no restore step, so the soonest it can all be back is the download at your full 1000 Mbps. The vendor does not publish how fast it serves a whole restore, so a real restore can take longer.