If you’re using Amazon S3 Storage Lens and have hundreds of billions of objects, you should be seeing lower prices. Amazon has announced that S3 Storage Lens now has lower pricing tiers for customers with 25 billion or more objects. The first 25-billion objects are billed at $0.20, the next 75 billion at $0.16, and all objects beyond 100 billion are billed at $0.12 per million objects monitored monthly. The new pricing goes into effect with the monthly billing cycle starting on January 1, 2023.
Recently, Amazon S3 Storage Lens added nearly three dozen new metrics to its service. S3 Storage Lens, by default, offers 28 free metrics for all customers with 14 days of historical data. Upgrading to advanced metrics and recommendations gets users 35 additional metrics with 15 months of historical data. The S3 Storage Lens with advanced metrics is a helpful tool in providing additional insights to activity for its users, helping potentially optimize cost.
Amazon S3 Storage Lens is available in all Amazon AWS regions, including AWS China Regions. It is however, not available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
With the introduction of lower tiered pricing, it makes continuous monitoring of large storage footprints more affordable with Amazon S3. If you or your business is using Amazon S3 and you’re looking to save even more money, fill out WindRate’s quick quote form. Through our managed service providers (MSPs), our customers have saved up to 70% on cloud storage costs! More importantly, the service is of no cost to you, and you get to choose when and who to respond to!