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Teams search for “S3 infrequent access restore cost” because a cheaper storage gigabyte looks like a win. The read still leaves a bill. Every stored gigabyte pays the class storage rate. Every gigabyte you get back pays a retrieve fee the standard class often bills at $0. Provider A-vs-B and CDN-vs-origin are different pages. This one is only the storage class on one store.
On the default 500 GB stored and 150 GB read back — $0.023 standard, $0.0125 infrequent, $0.04 per retrieved GB — standard class is $11.50. Infrequent is $6.25 of storage plus $6.00 of retrieve, $12.25. Standard is $0.75 cheaper. Infrequent matches standard at 131.3 GB retrieved. At 100 GB retrieved infrequent is $10.25, $1.25 cheaper. Paste the rates on your current price sheet. This page does not fetch provider prices.
| Class | Storage | Retrieve | Request fees | Monthly total |
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Complementary to the two-provider monthly comparison (which object store), CDN vs origin (cache hits versus pulling the same bytes), and replica vs cross-region pull (a second copy versus pulling again). This page is only the storage class. The calculator is arithmetic, not advice. It does not claim a restore will stay at the volume you typed, and it does not model minimum storage duration.
Not always. The infrequent class bills less to store a gigabyte and more to read it back. On the default 500 GB stored and 150 GB retrieved — $0.023 standard, $0.0125 infrequent, $0.04 per retrieved GB — standard is $11.50. Infrequent is $6.25 storage plus $6.00 retrieve, $12.25. Standard is $0.75 cheaper. Infrequent matches standard at 131.3 GB retrieved. Paste your quoted rates; this page does not fetch provider prices.
The restore-GB ceiling is the monthly retrieve volume where both classes bill the same. Above that volume, standard is cheaper on these rates. The page solves that volume from the rates you enter. It does not recommend changing a storage class.