AWS EBS Monthly Cost Estimator
Estimate your Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) monthly and annual cost using common pricing components: storage, provisioned performance, and snapshots.
Note: Rates are example public On-Demand estimates and can differ from current AWS pricing, tiering, taxes, and discounts.
What this AWS EBS price calculator includes
This calculator is designed to give you a fast estimate of Amazon EBS pricing for a typical workload. It combines the most common cost elements into one simple output so you can compare options before deployment.
- Storage cost based on volume type and size in GB-month.
- Performance cost for volume types that bill separately for IOPS and throughput.
- Snapshot cost based on GB-month stored in EBS snapshots.
- Proration for volume usage hours if your volumes are not active the full month.
How AWS EBS pricing works
1) Storage (GB-month)
Every EBS volume is billed for its allocated size. If you provision 1,000 GB, you pay for that capacity each month, even if your filesystem only uses half of it. Storage rates vary by volume type and region.
2) Provisioned performance
For some volume types, performance is included in base storage pricing. For others, AWS bills extra for performance settings:
- gp3: base includes 3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s. Additional IOPS and throughput are billed separately.
- io1/io2: IOPS are billed separately from storage.
- gp2, st1, sc1: no separate IOPS/throughput line in this simplified model.
3) Snapshots
EBS snapshots are billed by GB-month of data stored in Amazon S3. This is often overlooked and can grow steadily as backup history expands. Lifecycle policies can significantly reduce this cost.
Formula used in this calculator
annual_total = monthly_total * 12
The calculator also applies included gp3 baseline performance before calculating additional IOPS and throughput charges.
Example estimate
Suppose you run 2 gp3 volumes in us-east-1, each 500 GB, with 6,000 IOPS and 250 MB/s per volume, plus 300 GB of snapshots:
- Storage: 2 × 500 × storage rate
- Extra IOPS: (6,000 - 3,000) × 2 × IOPS rate
- Extra throughput: (250 - 125) × 2 × throughput rate
- Snapshots: 300 × snapshot rate
The total gives you an actionable monthly estimate you can use for budgeting, architecture reviews, or chargeback models.
Ways to reduce EBS cost
- Choose the right volume family for the workload, not just the default.
- Right-size storage and remove unused or detached volumes.
- Use gp3 for many general workloads to control IOPS/throughput cost directly.
- Apply snapshot lifecycle policies to expire old backups automatically.
- Monitor CloudWatch metrics and tune IOPS or throughput only when required.
- Review region selection if latency requirements allow flexibility.
Important notes
This page is an estimation tool, not a billing contract. Actual AWS invoices can include additional items such as Fast Snapshot Restore, EBS-optimized throughput implications, data transfer, taxes, enterprise discounts, or Savings Plans impacts on attached compute resources.