AWS Backup pricing

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Overview

With AWS Backup, only pay for the back-up storage you use, back-up data transferred between AWS Regions, back-up data you restore and back-up evaluations. There is no minimum fee and there are no set-up charges.

         

Back-up storage pricing

AWS Backup storage pricing is based on the amount of storage space that your back-up data consumes. The storage amount billed in a month is based on the average storage space used throughout the month (billed as GB-month).

* Cold storage is currently only supported for back-ups of Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS and Amazon DynamoDB.

** Cold storage back-up for DynamoDB is only available when you opt in to advanced features for DynamoDB.

*** For S3 objects smaller than 128 KB, the back-ups would be priced as a 128-KB back-up. In addition to the per GB-month charge for S3 back-up, you will be charged for GET/LIST requests on your S3 objects and Eventbridge events.

**** Back-up data can be moved to the low-cost warm storage tier based on tiering configuration. Objects need to be retained in the warm storage tier for a minimum of 60 days before transitioning to the low-cost tier. The one-time transition represents the transition cost for moving items from the warm storage tier to low-cost storage tier.

^ Back-ups transitioned to cold storage must be retained for a minimum of 90 days. Back-ups deleted before 90 days incur a pro-rated charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days.

^^ Back-ups of EFS, S3 are billed on a GB-day basis instead of a GB-hour basis. This means that your back-up storage for these resources is billed for the whole day.

^^^ Cold storage back-up for EBS transitions back-ups to the EBS Snapshots archive tier. 

Restore pricing

The restore amount billed in a month is based on the amount of data restored for the month. The data restored in a month is measured in GB and represents the sum of the data across all the restores performed in the month.

* Cold storage is currently only supported for back-ups of Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS and Amazon DynamoDB.

** Cold storage restore for DynamoDB is only available when you opt in to advanced features for DynamoDB.

^ Item-level restore is not currently available.

^^ You will incur warm storage restore charges for EFS and S3.

Pricing examples

  • Total usage (GB-days) = [400 GB x 15 days] + [800 GB x 15 days] = 18,000 GB-days
    We add up GB-days and convert to GB-month by dividing by 30:
    Total GB-month = 18,000 GB-days/30 = 600 GB-month
    Total monthly storage charge = 600 GB-month x €0.046 = €27.60

    Assume that you performed 10 back-up copies that were 40 GB each from the US East (N. Virginia) region to US West (N. California). At the end of the month, you would have the following cross-region data transfer usage and destination region storage charges (that say totalled to 6,000 GB-days):

    Total usage = 10 cross-region data transfers x 40 GB = 400 GB
    Total monthly cross-region data transfer charge (in sending account) = 400 GB x €0.037 = €14.80
    Total GB-month in destination region = 6,000 GB-days/30 = 200 GB-month
    Total monthly destination storage charge (in receiving account) = 200 GB-month x €0.055 = €11.00

    Furthermore, assume that you restored 10 back-ups that were 1 GB each. At the end of the month, you would have the following back-up restore usage, in GB:

    Total usage = 10 restores x 1 GB = 10 GB
    Total monthly restore charge = 10 GB x €0.018 = €0.18

    Continuing on, assume that you restored 10 files that were 100 MB each in two separate transactions. At the end of the month, you would have the following back-up item-level restore usage, in GB:

    Total usage = 10 restores x 100 MB = 1 GB
    Total item-level requests = 2 requests (5 items per request)
     Total monthly item-level restore charge = 1 GB x €0.018 + 2 requests x €0.46 = €0.018 + €0.92 = €0.94

    Lastly, assume that you perform 1,500 back-up evaluations in two AWS Regions over the course of the month. Also, assume that these back-up evaluations trigger 2,000 configuration items recorded (one configuration item for each back-up evaluation and 500 additional configuration items from changes to underlying back-up resources). At the end of the month, you would have the following AWS Backup Audit Manager usage: 

    Total back-up evaluations = 1,500 back-up evaluations x 2 regions = 3,000 back-up evaluations
    Cost of back-up evaluations = 3,000 back-up evaluations x (€1.15/1,000) = €3.45*
    Cost of configuration items by AWS Config = 2,000 x €0.0028 = €5.52**
    Total monthly AWS Backup Audit Manager charge = €8.97

    Adding your back-up storage, back-up copy and back-up restore charges together gives you your total monthly AWS Backup bill:

    Total monthly AWS Backup bill = €27.60 + €14.80 + €11.00 + €0.18 + €0.94 + €8.97 = €63.49
    *This portion will be billed by AWS Backup
    **This portion will be billed by AWS Config
  • Total monthly storage charge @€0.046 per GB-month = 500,000 x €0.046 = €23,000

    S3 GET APIs charges €0.0037 per 10,000 requests. Assuming 8 GET APIs per new object, max GET API charges = (€0.0037/10,000) * 8 * 100 million = €296
    S3 LIST API charges €0.046 per 10,000 requests. Assuming 1 list per 500 object, max possible LIST API charges = (€0.046/10,000)*(100 million/500) = €0.92

    Assuming 20 million EventBridge events across all objects in the 500 TB bucket for the initial back-up.
    EventBridge matched events charge €0.92 per 1 million events.
    Maximum possible EventBridge charge on your S3 bucket = (€0.92/1 million) x 20 million = €18.40

    Total monthly TCO for first full back-up = €23,000 + €296 + €0.92 + €18.40 = €23,315.32

    Let us also assume that you decide to restore 2.5 TB of your back-ups.

    Total charge of restore = 2,500 x €0.018 = €45

    S3 PUT API charges €0.046 per 10,000 requests. Assuming 1 PUT per object, max possible PUT API charges =  (€0.046/10,000) * 5 million = €23

    Your monthly AWS Backup bill = €23,000 (back-up storage in N. Virginia) + €45 (restore) = €23,045
    Your monthly bill for Amazon S3 = €319.92 (GET requests = €296, LIST requests = €0.92, PUT requests = €23)
    Your monthly bill for Amazon EventBridge = €18.40
    Your total TCO = 23,315.32 + €45 + €23 = €23,383.32

    Please note that there will be additional charges for S3 Versioning. Incremental back-ups will incur additional charges for storage as well as for S3 GET/LIST requests and Eventbridge. Buckets containing more than 300 million objects will also incur charges for S3 inventory reports.

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