AWS

Cloud services billed by request, storage, transfer, and compute time.

About AWS

Cloud services billed by request, storage, transfer, and compute time. AWS sits in CostUse’s catalog of cloud and metered product lines. Instead of a thin brand blurb, this page assembles what matters for budgeting: what the company bills for usage, in which unit, at which list rate, and on which date the figure was checked against the public source.

There are 4 published calculators for AWS. List unit prices run from $0.0000002 to $0.00016, with a median of $0.000003. Billing units represented here: request, PUT request, GET request, outbound email. The most recent price check in this group is 2026-07-30.

Official AWS pricing page

AWS pricing table

Compare meters side by side before opening each calculator. Watch the unit carefully: a “cheap” host rate is not comparable to a per-GB or per-million-events rate. The source column links to the official page used for verification.

ServiceUnit priceUnitSourceVerified
AWS Lambda requests $0.0000002 request AWS Lambda pricing
Amazon S3 GET requests (standard illustrative) $0.0000004 GET request Amazon S3 pricing
Amazon S3 PUT requests (standard illustrative) $0.000005 PUT request Amazon S3 pricing
Amazon SES outbound email (Essentials illustrative) $0.00016 outbound email Amazon SES pricing

AWS services and APIs in this catalog

Each table row maps to a full service page: volume calculator, cost profile (what 1, 1k, and 1M units cost, and how far $100 goes), and the pricing documentation link. If AWS publishes included quotas on monthly plans, use the calculator for the variable part and read the inclusion on the official source.

For engineering and finops teams, the practical flow is: (1) list the meters your product actually hits, (2) fill real or peak volume, (3) sum the results instead of guessing a single “platform average.” Large platforms mix several counters—logs, APM, infrastructure, RUM—and budget misses start when every line is treated as the same meter.

AWS calculators

The cards at the top of this page open each service with its interactive calculator. Start with the meter that dominates your current bill, then explore the rest of the AWS lineup.

Frequently asked questions about AWS

What does AWS bill for usage in this catalog?

There are 4 published meters for AWS, billed in units such as request, PUT request, GET request, outbound email. Each page shows the list unit price, the billing unit, and the date the figure was checked against the public source.

Which AWS meter has the lowest unit price here?

AWS Lambda requests lists $0.0000002 per request. Use that page’s calculator to project daily and monthly volume before you lock a budget.

Do AWS monthly plans roll into the calculator figure?

When the source publishes a per-unit rate (per GB, per request, per seat, and so on), the calculator uses that linear list rate. Included quotas, monthly minimums, annual packs, and volume discounts still need to be read on the official docs—CostUse keeps the source and verification date visible on every service page.

How should I compare AWS services against each other?

Use the pricing table on this page and sort by what you actually consume: log ingest, hosts, spans, seats, and storage are not comparable on the same unit. Then run each calculator with your team’s real volume, not a generic placeholder.