Amazon Web Services server pricingUS company

EC2 rents virtual servers by the hour or second. Source

Lightsail is a simpler server sold on flat monthly pricing, with server specs and transfer bundled into one monthly price. Source

On-Demand is paid by the hour or second with a 60-second minimum and no long-term commitment. Source

A Lightsail bundle includes memory, processor, SSD disk and a transfer allowance. Both inbound and outbound data count toward the allowance, but only outbound overage is charged. Source

New accounts get $100 in credits at once and can earn up to $100 more by exploring services. A Free plan account closes after 6 months or when credits run out. Source

Savings Plans cut costs by up to 72% versus On-Demand in exchange for a usage commitment. Spot Instances use spare capacity at up to 90% off. Source

Data transfer out to the internet is free up to 100GB per month, aggregated across all services and Regions, except China and GovCloud. Source

Every public IPv4 address is charged per hour, in use or idle. Billing is per second with a 60-second minimum. Source

A NAT gateway has an hourly charge for as long as it exists, plus a charge for the data it processes. Source

A Seoul Region (ap-northeast-2) is available. Source

RDS runs databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL for you. Source

On-Demand instances are billed per second with no minimum fee or commitment. Source

If you signed up before July 15, 2025, select single-AZ instances are free for 12 months up to 750 hours a month. Later sign-ups use their sign-up credits. Source

Reserved Instances run for 1 or 3 years, with No Upfront, Partial Upfront or All Upfront payment. Source

Multi-AZ keeps a standby in a different Availability Zone and fails over automatically during an outage or maintenance. Source

Backup storage for automated backups and snapshots is free up to 100% of your total database storage in a Region. Source

A stopped instance still bills for provisioned storage and backup storage. Only instance hours stop. Source

Data moving between EC2 and RDS in different Availability Zones is charged at regional transfer rates. Source

S3 stores files as objects. Source

There is no minimum charge. Costs split into storage, requests and retrievals, data transfer and management features. Source

Data transfer out to the internet is free up to 100GB per month, aggregated across all services. Source

Each PUT, COPY or lifecycle transition that moves data into a storage class carries a request charge. Source

Sending data to another Region is charged separately as inter-Region transfer. Source

Standard-IA and One Zone-IA have a 30-day minimum storage charge, so deleting earlier bills the remaining days. Objects under 128KB are billed as 128KB. Source