- Pay for what you use: There are no setup fees or contracts; you only pay for the exact resources your application consumes.
- Compute costs: You are billed by the second or hour for virtual servers from the moment they start until they stop.
- Storage costs: You pay a flat monthly rate per gigabyte (GB) for the data you store in the cloud.
- Data transfer costs: Sending data into AWS is completely free, but you pay a small fee per gigabyte to send data out to the internet.
- On-Demand pricing: This is the flexible standard rate with no commitments, best for unpredictable or changing traffic.
- Savings Plans: You can get up to 72% off by committing to a fixed amount of usage for 1 or 3 years.
- Spot Instances: You can save up to 90% by renting unused AWS capacity, though AWS can reclaim it if needed.
- Volume discounts: The unit price naturally drops as your total data storage and usage grow larger.
- AWS Free Tier: New accounts get 12 months of popular services for free within strict monthly limits.
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