At re:Invent 2023, we introduced Amazon S3 Express One Zone, 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.
S3 Express One Zone delivers data access speed up to 10 times faster than S3 Standard, and it can support up to 2 million GET transactions per second (TPS) and up to 200,000 PUT 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 Fundrise, Aura, Lyrebird, Vivian Health, and Fetch improved the performance and reduced the costs of their data-intensive workloads.
Since launch, we’ve introduced a number of features for our customers using S3 Express One Zone. For example, S3 Express One Zone started to support object expiration using S3 Lifecycle to expire objects based on age to help you automatically optimize storage costs. In addition, your log-processing or media-broadcasting applications can directly append new data to the end of existing objects and then immediately read the object, all within S3 Express One Zone.
Today we’re announcing that, effective April 10, 2025, S3 Express One Zone has reduced storage prices by 31 percent, PUT request prices by 55 percent, and GET 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.
Here is a price reduction table in the US East (N. Virginia) Region:
| Price | Previous | New | Price reduction |
| Storage (per GB-Month) |
$0.16 | $0.11 | 31% |
| Writes ( PUT requests) |
$0.0025 per 1,000 requests up to 512 KB | $0.00113 per 1,000 requests | 55% |
| Reads ( GET requests) |
$0.0002 per 1,000 requests up to 512 KB | $0.00003 per 1,000 requests | 85% |
| Data upload (per GB) |
$0.008 | $0.0032 | 60% |
| Data retrievals (per GB) |
$0.0015 | $0.0006 | 60% |
For S3 Express One Zone pricing examples, go to the S3 billing FAQs or use the AWS Pricing Calculator.
These pricing reductions apply to S3 Express One Zone in all AWS Regions 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 Amazon S3 pricing page and S3 Express One Zone in the AWS Documentation.
Give S3 Express One Zone a try in the S3 console today and send feedback to AWS re:Post for Amazon S3 or through your usual AWS Support contacts.
— Channy