Is Amazon S3 free for file storage?

No — there's no free plan, but no monthly fee either: you pay for what you use (S3 Standard (US East): stored $0.023 per GB, downloaded $0.09 per GB).

How much does Amazon S3 cost for file storage?

S3 Standard in US East is $0.023 per GB-month stored and $0.09 per GB downloaded to the internet, after 100 GB of downloads a month free. At list prices: stored 10 GB, downloaded 10 GB: $0.23/month (S3 Standard (US East)); stored 100 GB, downloaded 200 GB: $11/month (S3 Standard (US East)); stored 5k GB, downloaded 5k GB: $556/month (S3 Standard (US East)).

Amazon S3 pricing

How Amazon S3 charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.

How it charges

Checked 2026-10-03 on aws.amazon.com ↗ · USD, list prices

In short

S3 Standard in US East is $0.023 per GB-month stored and $0.09 per GB downloaded to the internet, after 100 GB of downloads a month free.

Free plan: Yes
Side project: $0.23/mo S3 Standard (US East)
Growing: $11/mo S3 Standard (US East)
Scaling: $556/mo S3 Standard (US East)

What the model leaves out

US East (N. Virginia) rates, read from AWS's published price list for the S3 pricing page. Storage is $0.023/GB for the first 50 TB, then $0.022 (next 450 TB) and $0.021 (over 500 TB). The first 100 GB/month of internet egress is free (aggregated across all AWS services); egress is $0.09/GB for the next 10 TB, then $0.085, $0.07 and $0.05 at higher volumes. Requests (PUT/GET) and other storage classes are not modelled.

Before you commit

The 100 GB of free internet egress is per account, shared across all AWS services and regions.
Requests (PUT, COPY, POST, LIST, GET) are billed per request on top of storage and transfer.
Standard-IA and One Zone-IA bill a 128 KB minimum object size and a 30-day minimum storage duration; Glacier classes have 90- or 180-day minimums.