{"head":{"title":"AWS Pricing: EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS | OceanLab","description":"AWS prices for EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, SES and Cognito in us-east-1, read off AWS's own price list with a link on every row. Estimate a month.","canonical":"https://oceanlab.in/pricing/aws"},"asOf":"2026-10-25","vendor":{"id":"aws","name":"AWS","product":"Amazon Web Services (EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, SES, Cognito)","categories":["cloud-hosting","serverless","object-storage","cdn","databases","email-api","auth"],"source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"US East (N. Virginia), on-demand, Linux, USD. No Savings Plans or Reserved Instances. A month is 730 hours. Most prices come from AWS's official Price List API; CloudFront rates are for US edge locations.","plans":[{"id":"cloudfront-free","name":"CloudFront Free (flat-rate)","monthly":0,"summary":"Per distribution. 1M requests and 100GB data transfer a month, 5GB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-pro","name":"CloudFront Pro (flat-rate)","monthly":15,"summary":"Per distribution. 10M requests and 50TB data transfer a month, 50GB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-business","name":"CloudFront Business (flat-rate)","monthly":200,"summary":"Per distribution. 125M requests and 50TB data transfer a month, 1TB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-premium","name":"CloudFront Premium (flat-rate)","monthly":1000,"summary":"Per distribution. 500M requests and 50TB data transfer a month, 5TB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-custom","name":"CloudFront Custom (flat-rate)","monthly":null,"summary":"Custom pricing through a specialist. No usage limit.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"ses-essentials","name":"SES Essentials","monthly":0,"summary":"No monthly fee. New SES accounts start on this plan from July 21, 2026. $0.16 per 1,000 emails up to 10M.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"},{"id":"ses-pro","name":"SES Pro","monthly":105,"summary":"$105 per account per region per month, plus $0.22 per 1,000 emails up to 10M.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"},{"id":"ses-enterprise","name":"SES Enterprise","monthly":500,"summary":"$500 per account per region per month, plus $0.23 per 1,000 emails up to 10M.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"}],"meters":[{"id":"ec2-t4g-medium","kind":"vm-2cpu-4gb","label":"EC2 t4g.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB, Graviton2), Linux on-demand","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":24.528,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.0336 per hour x 730 hours. Shared tenancy, no extra software. EBS storage is billed separately.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/20261023221355/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"ec2-t3-medium","kind":"vm-2cpu-4gb","label":"EC2 t3.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB, Intel), Linux on-demand","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":30.368,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.0416 per hour x 730 hours. Shared tenancy. EBS storage is billed separately.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/20261023221355/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"lambda-requests","kind":"fn-requests","label":"Lambda requests","unit":"request","per":1000000,"price":0.2,"included":1000000,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.0000002 per request. Free tier: 1M requests a month.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSLambda/20261022183959/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"lambda-gb-second","kind":"fn-gb-second","label":"Lambda duration (x86)","unit":"GB-second","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":400000,"price":0},{"upTo":6000000000,"price":0.0000166667},{"upTo":15000000000,"price":0.000015},{"upTo":null,"price":0.0000133334}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"x86 price. First 6 billion GB-seconds a month at $0.0000166667. Free tier: 400,000 GB-seconds a month. Billed per 1 ms.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSLambda/20261022183959/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"s3-standard-storage","kind":"storage-gb","label":"S3 Standard storage","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":51200,"price":0.023},{"upTo":512000,"price":0.022},{"upTo":null,"price":0.021}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"First 50 TB a month at $0.023 per GB.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/20261015173540/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"s3-put-requests","kind":"storage-ops","label":"S3 Standard PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests","unit":"request","per":1000,"price":0.005,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/20261015173540/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"s3-get-requests","kind":"other","label":"S3 Standard GET and other requests","unit":"request","per":1000,"price":0.0004,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.004 per 10,000, shown here per 1,000.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/20261015173540/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"egress-internet","kind":"egress-gb","label":"Data transfer out to the internet (from us-east-1)","unit":"GB","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":100,"price":0},{"upTo":10240,"price":0.09},{"upTo":51200,"price":0.085},{"upTo":153600,"price":0.07},{"upTo":null,"price":0.05}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"First 10 TB at $0.09 per GB, after the free 100 GB. The 100 GB is shared across all AWS services and regions.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/20260916132208/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"cloudfront-gb-us","kind":"cdn-gb","label":"CloudFront data transfer out (United States, Mexico, Canada)","unit":"GB","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":1024,"price":0},{"upTo":10240,"price":0.085},{"upTo":51200,"price":0.08},{"upTo":153600,"price":0.06},{"upTo":512000,"price":0.04},{"upTo":1048576,"price":0.03},{"upTo":5242880,"price":0.025},{"upTo":null,"price":0.02}],"included":0,"note":"Pay-as-you-go. First 1 TB a month is free (Always Free tier), then $0.085 per GB up to 10 TB. Europe is the same for the first tiers.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonCloudFront/20261019150500/aws-other/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"cloudfront-https-requests","kind":"cdn-requests","label":"CloudFront HTTPS requests (United States)","unit":"request","per":1000000,"price":1,"included":10000000,"note":"Page price is $0.0100 per 10,000 HTTPS requests, converted to per 1M. First 10M HTTP or HTTPS requests a month are free.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonCloudFront/20261019150500/aws-other/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"rds-pg-t4g-micro","kind":"db-instance","label":"RDS for PostgreSQL db.t4g.micro, Single-AZ on-demand","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":11.68,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.016 per hour x 730 hours. Storage billed separately.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonRDS/20261020003232/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"rds-pg-gp3","kind":"db-storage-gb","label":"RDS for PostgreSQL gp3 storage, Single-AZ","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.115,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonRDS/20261020003232/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"ses-outbound-alacarte","kind":"email","label":"SES outbound email (a la carte, no plan)","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":0.1,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"Attachments add $0.12 per GB.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/","plan":null},{"id":"ses-outbound-essentials","kind":"email","label":"SES outbound email on the Essentials plan","unit":"email","per":1000,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000000,"price":0.16},{"upTo":100000000,"price":0.14},{"upTo":null,"price":0.11}],"included":0,"plan":"ses-essentials","region":"us-east-1","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"},{"id":"cognito-essentials-mau","kind":"mau","label":"Cognito Essentials MAU (direct or social sign-in)","unit":"MAU","per":1,"price":0.015,"included":10000,"region":"us-east-1","note":"Free tier of 10,000 MAUs per account, does not expire. SAML/OIDC users have only 50 free MAUs.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/pricing/","plan":null},{"id":"cognito-lite-mau","kind":"mau","label":"Cognito Lite MAU (direct or social sign-in)","unit":"MAU","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000,"price":0},{"upTo":100000,"price":0.0055},{"upTo":1000000,"price":0.0046},{"upTo":10000000,"price":0.00325},{"upTo":null,"price":0.0025}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"The 10,000 free MAUs come first. We read the paid tiers as counted after them.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonCognito/20261020233814/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null}],"notes":[{"title":"Free data transfer","detail":"The first 100 GB a month out to the internet is free. It is shared across all AWS services and regions, not per service."},{"title":"CloudFront free tier","detail":"Pay-as-you-go CloudFront includes 1 TB out and 10M HTTP or HTTPS requests a month, always free. Flat-rate plans are per distribution with no overage charges."},{"title":"Per-second billing","detail":"EC2 Linux on-demand is billed per second, with a 60-second minimum. Lambda duration is rounded up to the nearest 1 ms."},{"title":"Lambda and Cognito free tiers","detail":"Lambda includes 1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds a month. Cognito Lite and Essentials include 10,000 MAUs a month, and this does not expire."}],"unverified":["CloudFront request price for Europe (only the US price is shown).","The RDS free tier for new accounts, since eligibility varies.","A free SES allowance: none was found on the SES page.","Where the Cognito Lite volume tiers start: we read them as counted after the 10,000 free MAUs."],"payg":true},"categories":[{"id":"cloud-hosting","name":"Cloud hosting","href":"/pricing/categories/cloud-hosting"},{"id":"serverless","name":"Serverless functions","href":"/pricing/categories/serverless"},{"id":"object-storage","name":"Object storage","href":"/pricing/categories/object-storage"},{"id":"cdn","name":"CDN","href":"/pricing/categories/cdn"},{"id":"databases","name":"Database","href":"/pricing/categories/databases"},{"id":"email-api","name":"Email API","href":"/pricing/categories/email-api"},{"id":"auth","name":"Auth","href":"/pricing/categories/auth"}],"siblings":[{"label":"Microsoft Azure pricing","href":"/pricing/azure","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Cloudflare pricing","href":"/pricing/cloudflare","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"DigitalOcean pricing","href":"/pricing/digitalocean","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Firebase pricing","href":"/pricing/firebase","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Fly.io pricing","href":"/pricing/fly-io","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Google Cloud pricing","href":"/pricing/google-cloud","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"MongoDB Atlas pricing","href":"/pricing/mongodb-atlas","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Neon pricing","href":"/pricing/neon","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Netlify pricing","href":"/pricing/netlify","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"PlanetScale pricing","href":"/pricing/planetscale","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Render pricing","href":"/pricing/render","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Supabase pricing","href":"/pricing/supabase","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Vercel pricing","href":"/pricing/vercel","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Postmark pricing","href":"/pricing/postmark","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Resend pricing","href":"/pricing/resend","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Twilio SendGrid pricing","href":"/pricing/sendgrid","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."}],"faqs":[{"question":"How much does AWS cost?","answer":"CloudFront Free (flat-rate) has no monthly fee: Per distribution. 1M requests and 100GB data transfer a month, 5GB S3 storage, no overage charges. The lowest paid plan listed is CloudFront Pro (flat-rate) at $15 a month. Usage rates include EC2 t4g.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB, Graviton2), Linux on-demand at $24.53 per instance-month, EC2 t3.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB, Intel), Linux on-demand at $30.37 per instance-month and lambda requests at $0.20 per 1M requests. All checked on 2026-10-25."},{"question":"Is there a free tier on AWS?","answer":"Yes. Lambda requests: 1,000,000 requests a month at no charge, Lambda duration (x86): 400,000 GB-second a month at no charge and Data transfer out to the internet (from us-east-1): 100 GB a month at no charge. The rates table shows which plan each allowance is on."},{"question":"What is not on AWS's pricing page?","answer":"We could not confirm these on 2026-10-25, so the page shows no number for them: CloudFront request price for Europe (only the US price is shown). The RDS free tier for new accounts, since eligibility varies. A free SES allowance: none was found on the SES page. Where the Cognito Lite volume tiers start: we read them as counted after the 10,000 free MAUs."},{"question":"Where do these prices come from?","answer":"From AWS's own pricing pages, starting at https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/, checked on 2026-10-25. Every row links to the page it came from. US East (N. Virginia), on-demand, Linux, USD. No Savings Plans or Reserved Instances. A month is 730 hours. Most prices come from AWS's official Price List API; CloudFront rates are for US edge locations."}]}