

However, data transferred between Amazon EC2 (or any AWS service) and Amazon S3 across all other regions is charged at rates specified on the Amazon S3 pricing page, for example, data transferred between Amazon EC2 US East (Northern Virginia) and Amazon S3 US West (Northern California). For S3 on Outposts pricing, please visit the Outposts pricing page. There is no Data Transfer charge for data transferred between Amazon EC2 (or any AWS service) and Amazon S3 within the same region, for example, data transferred within the US East (Northern Virginia) Region. Data transferred via a COPY request between AWS Regions is charged at rates specified in the pricing section of the Amazon S3 detail page.

There is no Data Transfer charge for data transferred within an Amazon S3 Region via a COPY request. Billing prices are based on the location of your S3 bucket. Some prices vary across Amazon S3 Regions. You can estimate your monthly bill using the AWS Pricing Calculator. With Amazon S3, you pay only for what you use. The strong consistency of S3 also reduces costs by removing the need for extra infrastructure to provide strong consistency. These applications automatically and immediately benefit from strong read-after-write consistency. High-performance computing workloads also benefit in that when an object is overwritten and then read many times simultaneously, strong read-after-write consistency provides assurance that the latest write is read across all reads. Strong read-after-write consistency helps when you need to immediately read an object after a write - for example, when you often read and list immediately after writing objects. Q: Why does strong read-after-write consistency help me?

S3 also provides strong consistency for list operations, so after a write, you can immediately perform a listing of the objects in a bucket with any changes reflected. Q: What is the consistency model for Amazon S3?Īmazon S3 delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically, without changes to performance or availability, without sacrificing regional isolation for applications, and at no additional cost.Īfter a successful write of a new object or an overwrite of an existing object, any subsequent read request immediately receives the latest version of the object.
