<section class="blog-post-content lb-rtxt"><table id="amazon-polly-audio-table"><tbody><tr><td id="amazon-polly-audio-tab"><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At re:Invent 2023, we <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-express-one-zone-high-performance-storage-class/">introduced</a> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/express-one-zone/">Amazon S3 Express One Zone</a>, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications.</p><p>S3 Express One Zone delivers data access speed up to 10 times faster than S3 Standard, and it can support up to 2 million <code>GET</code> transactions per second (TPS) and up to 200,000 <code>PUT</code> TPS per directory bucket. This makes it ideal for performance-intensive workloads such as interactive data analytics, data streaming, media rendering and transcoding, high performance computing (HPC), and AI/ML trainings. Using S3 Express One Zone, customers like <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/fundrise-uses-amazon-s3-express-one-zone-to-accelerate-investment-data-processing/">Fundrise</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-aura-improves-database-performance-using-amazon-s3-express-one-zone-for-caching/">Aura</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/lyrebird-improves-performance-and-reduces-costs-for-generative-ai-workloads-using-amazon-s3-express-one-zone/">Lyrebird</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-vivian-health-is-using-amazon-s3-express-one-zone-to-accelerate-healthcare-hiring/">Vivian Health</a>, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/how-fetch-reduces-latency-on-image-uploads-using-amazon-s3-express-one-zone/">Fetch</a> improved the performance and reduced the costs of their data-intensive workloads.</p><p>Since launch, we’ve introduced <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/storage/?whats-new-content.q=S3%2BExpress%2BOne%2BZone">a number of features</a> for our customers using S3 Express One Zone. For example, S3 Express One Zone started to support <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-s3-express-one-zone-s3-lifecycle-expirations/">object expiration using S3 Lifecycle</a> to expire objects based on age to help you automatically optimize storage costs. In addition, your log-processing or media-broadcasting applications can directly <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/11/amazon-s3-express-one-zone-append-data-object/">append new data to the end of existing objects</a> and then immediately read the object, all within S3 Express One Zone.</p><p>Today we’re announcing that, effective April 10, 2025, S3 Express One Zone has reduced storage prices by 31 percent, <code>PUT</code> request prices by 55 percent, and <code>GET</code> request prices by 85 percent. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced the per-GB charges for data uploads and retrievals by 60 percent, and these charges now apply to all bytes transferred rather than just portions of requests greater than 512 KB.</p><p>Here is a price reduction table in the US East (N. Virginia) Region:</p><table class="c7"><tbody><tr class="c5"><td class="c4"><strong>Price</strong></td><td class="c4"><strong>Previous</strong></td><td class="c4"><strong>New</strong></td><td class="c4"><strong>Price reduction</strong></td></tr><tr class="c6"><td class="c4"><strong>Storage<br /></strong> (per GB-Month)</td><td class="c4">$0.16</td><td class="c4">$0.10</td><td class="c4">31%</td></tr><tr class="c6"><td class="c4"><strong>Writes<br /></strong> (<code>PUT</code> requests)</td><td class="c4">$0.0025 per 1,000 requests up to 512 KB</td><td class="c4">$0.00113 per 1,000 requests</td><td class="c4">55%</td></tr><tr class="c6"><td class="c4"><strong>Reads<br /></strong> (<code>GET</code> requests)</td><td class="c4">$0.0002 per 1,000 requests up to 512 KB</td><td class="c4">$0.00003 per 1,000 requests</td><td class="c4">85%</td></tr><tr class="c6"><td class="c4"><strong>Data upload<br /></strong> (per GB)</td><td class="c4">$0.008</td><td class="c4">$0.0032</td><td class="c4">60%</td></tr><tr class="c6"><td class="c4"><strong>Data retrievals<br /></strong> (per GB)</td><td class="c4">$0.0015</td><td class="c4">$0.0006</td><td class="c4">60%</td></tr></tbody></table><p>For S3 Express One Zone pricing examples, go to the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#S3_Express_One_Zone">S3 billing FAQs</a> or use the <a href="https://calculator.aws/">AWS Pricing Calculator</a>.</p><p>These pricing reductions apply to <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/s3-express-Endpoints.html">S3 Express One Zone in all AWS Regions</a> where the storage class is available: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/">Amazon S3 pricing page</a> and <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/directory-bucket-high-performance.html">S3 Express One Zone</a> in the AWS Documentation.</p><p>Give S3 Express One Zone a try in the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3">S3 console</a> today and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TADSTjraA0Q4-a1dxk6eUYaw/amazon-simple-storage-service">AWS re:Post for Amazon S3</a> or through your usual AWS Support contacts.</p><p>— <a href="https://x.com/channyun">Channy</a></p></section><aside id="Comments" class="blog-comments"><div data-lb-comp="aws-blog:cosmic-comments" data-env="prod" data-content-id="d4b00026-bb71-477b-bea1-a17499512f4d" data-title="Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zone" data-url="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/up-to-85-price-reductions-for-amazon-s3-express-one-zone/"><p data-failed-message="Comments cannot be loaded… Please refresh and try again.">Loading comments…</p></div></aside>
