How AWS
Pricing Works
Confused about how AWS pricing works?
Use this straightforward guide to clear
things up.
Introduction
A
WS offers a range of cloud computing services. For each service, you pay for exactly the
amount of resources you actually need. This
utility-style pricing model is explained below:
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Pay as you go. No minimum commitments or long-
term contracts required. You replace your upfront capital expense with low variable cost and pay only for what you use.
There is no need to pay upfront for excess capacity or get
penalized for under-planning. For compute resources, you
pay on an hourly basis from the time you launch a resource
until the time you terminate it. For data storage and transfer,
you pay on a per gigabyte basis. We charge based on the
underlying infrastructure and services that you consume.
You can turn off your cloud resources and stop paying for
them when you don’t need them.
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Pay less when you reserve. For certain products,
you can invest in reserved capac