Cloud Storage Cost Estimator
Stop getting hit with surprise cloud bills. Estimate your monthly storage and data egress (download) costs across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
Your Data Usage
1 TB = 1,000 GB
How much data do your users download out of the cloud? (This is usually where the huge bills come from).
Note on Pricing:
This tool uses standard tier pricing averages (US Regions). Actual costs may vary slightly based on specific regions, free tiers, and reserved capacity discounts.
Estimated Monthly Bill
The Hidden Cost of Cloud Computing
Moving to the cloud was supposed to save your company money. But most developers get a massive shock when they see their first monthly bill. Why? Because of Data Egress Fees.
Storage vs Egress
- Storage Costs: How much it costs to keep your data sitting on their hard drives (Usually very cheap, around $0.02 per GB).
- Egress Costs (Bandwidth): How much it costs when a user downloads that data out of the cloud and onto the public internet (Usually very expensive, around $0.09 per GB).
The Egress Trap
Cloud providers like AWS S3 and Google Cloud make it incredibly cheap (often free) to upload data into their ecosystem. But if you build an app that serves lots of video or large files to users, they charge you a massive premium for the bandwidth used to extract that data. It is common for egress fees to be 5x to 10x higher than the actual storage costs.
How to Lower Cloud Costs
If you are serving public assets (like images or CSS files), never serve them directly from S3. Put a CDN (Content Delivery Network) like Cloudflare in front of your storage bucket. Cloudflare caches the data at the edge and often has zero egress fees.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cloud Storage Costs?
The Cloud Storage Costs is a free online tool designed to help you compare storage and egress costs across aws, google cloud, and azure.
How much does the Cloud Storage Costs cost?
Our Cloud Storage Costs is 100% free to use. We do not require any signups, subscriptions, or credit cards.
Is my data safe when using this tool?
Yes. All calculations are performed locally in your web browser. We do not store or save your financial data or inputs on our servers.