Storage pricing

AWS offers three shapes of storage, each priced and provisioned differently, and Google Cloud's block and object storage sit beside them. Pick a category to compare volume types or storage classes, regional rates, and run a live cost estimate.

AWS

Block, object and file storage

Also on AWS: EBS block storage, S3 object storage, EFS file storage, Compare storage →

Block Storage

Amazon EBS

Durable, low-latency volumes attached to EC2 instances. Capacity, provisioned IOPS, and throughput pricing across every SSD and HDD tier.

  • 7Volume types
  • 36Regions
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Object Storage

Amazon S3

Durable, internet-scale storage for objects of any size, accessed over HTTP. Storage, request, and retrieval pricing across every S3 storage class.

  • 7Storage classes
  • 36Regions
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File Storage

Amazon EFS

Elastic, serverless, POSIX-compliant shared file systems mountable across EC2, ECS, EKS, and Lambda. Storage tiers, throughput modes, and data access rates across every region.

  • 5Storage tiers
  • 3Throughput modes
  • 36Regions
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Google Cloud

Block and object storage

Also on Google Cloud: Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk, Cloud Storage →

Block Storage

Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk

Durable block volumes for Compute Engine VMs. Capacity, provisioned IOPS and throughput pricing for every disk type and snapshot, with zonal and regional variants.

  • 10Disk types
  • 48Regions
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Object Storage

Cloud Storage

Object storage in Standard, Nearline, Coldline and Archive classes. Storage, operation and retrieval pricing by region, dual-region and multi-region location.

  • 4Storage classes
  • 55Locations
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