Amazon DataSync pricing

Amazon DataSync is a high-speed, online data transfer service that makes it easy to securely move your data anywhere its needed: on premises, at the edge, or in the cloud. DataSync offers simple, predictable, pay-as-you-go pricing. You pay a flat, per-gigabyte fee for the amount of data transferred between your storage locations. Tasks configured for Enhanced mode are also charged a fee per task execution. These fees cover the costs to move, verify, and synchronize your data. With DataSync, there are no upfront costs and no minimum charges.

Using Enhanced mode, you can transfer virtually unlimited numbers of objects between your storage locations with higher performance than Basic mode. Enhanced mode tasks optimize and streamline the data transfer process by listing, preparing, transferring, and verifying data in parallel. Enhanced mode is currently available for transfers between Amazon S3 locations only.

Basic mode is subject to quotas on the number of files and objects in a dataset. Basic mode sequentially prepares, transfers, and verifies files and objects in a dataset, making it slower than Enhanced mode for most workloads. Basic mode supports all DataSync location types available today.

When using DataSync to copy data, you are charged standard request, storage, and data transfer rates to read from and write to Amazon Web Services services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), Amazon FSx, and Amazon Key Management Service (Amazon KMS).  

You will be billed by Amazon PrivateLink for interface Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints that you create to manage and control the traffic between your agent(s) and the DataSync service over PrivateLink. Only control traffic is subject to PrivateLink charges. This includes commands from the DataSync service to the agent, such as StartTaskExecution. The files or objects transferred by DataSync are not subject to PrivateLink charges. You are also charged standard rates for Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon CloudWatch Metrics, and Amazon CloudWatch Events.

Copying data to and from Amazon S3

When copying data to or from S3, you are charged standard request charges for the following S3 requests: LIST, HEAD, GET, PUT, and COPY. The exact operations performed depend upon the configuration of your DataSync task. For more information, read about evaluating S3 request costs in our documentation. Requests and storage charges can vary between S3 storage classes. You may also incur additional charges when reading and writing objects in different S3 storage classes. Read about working with Amazon S3 storage classes in our documentation.

Copying data to and from Amazon Web Services Regions

When copying data from Amazon Web Services to an on-premises storage system, you pay for  Data Transfer OUT from your source Region. When copying data between Regions, you pay for Data Transfer between Regions (billed as Data Transfer OUT from your source Region to your destination Region). When copying data using the Amazon DataSync EC2 agent, you pay for Data Transfer between Regions and for Data Transfer between Availability Zones. To learn more, see Data Transfer pricing.

Example 1: Archive 50 TB into Amazon S3

Cost to use DataSync for a one-time migration of 50 TB of 16 MB files into Amazon S3 in the Beijing Region:

(50 TB copied into S3 * 1024 GB * ¥0.089/GB) + (1 S3 LIST request * ¥0.00405 / 1000) + (50 TB / 16 MB S3 PUT requests * ¥0.00405 / 1000)

= ¥4,556.80 + ¥0 + ¥13.27

= ¥4,570.07

Example 2: Migrate 100 TB from a self-managed server to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Cost to migrate 100 TB from an on-premises Windows File Server to Amazon FSx, using DataSync:

(100 TB copied into Amazon FSx for Windows File Server * 1024 GB * ¥0.089/GB)

= ¥9,113.60

 

Example 3: Ongoing data transfers for an in-cloud processing and data distribution workflow

Suppose you perform a daily 1 TB transfer into Amazon EFS. Your cost for 31 days will be:

(1 TB copied into EFS * 1024 GB * ¥0.089/GB) * 31 days

= ¥2,825.22

 

Example 4: File system replication for business continuity with incrementals

Suppose you have a data replication job that copies a 10 TB file system into Amazon EFS in the Beijing Region once and replicates 1 TB of changes every day. Your cost for the initial copy and the 31 following days of normal usage will be:

10 TB * 1024 GB * ¥0.089/GB = ¥911.36 for the initial transfer

+ 1 TB * 1024 GB * ¥0.089/GB * 31 days for the incremental transfers

= ¥3,736.58 per month on an ongoing basis