How to calculate Amazon S3 prices

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I am trying to estimate how much I need to pay to store images for my customers on Amazon S3.
I use their calculator but the total seems to cheap. Feels like I am missing something.

Each image is about 3 MB. Using the calculator I get a monthly sum of $21 if I got 60.000 images (180 GB). This seem very cheap indeed.

My servers are on Amazon EC2, do I still need to add transfer in and out to the calculator?

Calculator:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

Prices:
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

Please help!

Best Answer

There is no charge for data transfer between AWS services. Likewise for data-in. However you will need to pay data-out charges, for your EC2 instances, as well as S3 (if your customers will be pulling data directly out of S3.

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