Free Cloud Storage Solutions on AWS

Reliable, scalable, and secure storage for your data

Product Benefits

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that enables storing data and files on the internet through a cloud computing provider that you access either through the public internet or a dedicated private network connection.

Make resources available in minutes, not weeks. Speed time to market, avoid complex capacity planning, and reduce over-provisioning with just a few clicks.

Choose from a variety of tools to get more from your data and accelerate new product and service delivery.

Minimize your total cost of ownership (TCO) with managed services that eliminate infrastructure maintenance. Optimize your storage costs based on how frequently and quickly you need to access your data.

Safeguard your data with unmatched security and storage designed for 99.999999999 (11 9s) of durability and multi Availability Zone resilience.

FEATURED

Choose industry leading foundation models with AWS

AWS offers the broadest choice of accelerators to power generative AI workloads and provides fast data transfer from storage with services including Amazon S3.

Free Product Offers

Deploy cloud storage solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

PRODUCT  DESCRIPTION  FREE TIER OFFER DETAILS  PRODUCT PRICING 

Amazon S3

Object Storage

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

12 MONTHS FREE

5 GB of standard storage

20,000 Get requests

2,000 Put requests

Amazon S3 Pricing

Amazon Elastic Block Storage

Block Storage

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance, block-storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale.

12 MONTHS FREE

30 GB of Amazon EBS: any combination of general purpose (SSD) or magnetic

2,000,000 I/O (with EBS magnetic)

1 GB of snapshot storage

Amazon Elastic Block Storage Pricing

Amazon EFS

Elastic File System

 

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.

12 MONTHS FREE

5 GB of storage

Amazon EFS Pricing

AWS Storage Gateway

Hybrid Cloud Storage

AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.

ALWAYS FREE

Up to 100GB/month free, up to $125/month maximum charges

No transfer charges into AWS

Amazon Storage Gateway Pricing

FEATURED

Choose industry leading foundation models with AWS

AWS offers the broadest choice of accelerators to power generative AI workloads and provides fast data transfer from storage with services including Amazon S3.

Free Product Offers

Deploy cloud storage solutions using these product offers from the AWS Free Tier.

AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
Secure, durable, and scalable object storage infrastructure.
12 MONTHS FREE

5 GB of standard storage

20,000 Get requests

2,000 Put requests

Amazon S3 Pricing »
AWS Lambda
Amazon Elastic Block Storage
Persistent, durable, low-latency block-level storage volumes for EC2 instances.
12 MONTHS FREE

30 GB of Amazon EBS: any combination of general purpose (SSD) or magnetic

2,000,000 I/O (with EBS magnetic)

1 GB of snapshot storage

Amazon EBS Pricing »
Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Elastic File System
Simple, scalable, shared file storage service for Amazon EC2 instances.
12 MONTHS FREE

5 GB of storage

Amazon EFS Pricing »
Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Storage Gateway
Hybrid cloud storage with seamless local integration and optimized data transfer.
ALWAYS FREE

Up to 100GB/month free, up to $125/month maximum charges

No transfer charges into AWS

Amazon Storage Gateway Pricing »

Learn more about Cloud Storage with AWS

Browse through our collection of videos and tutorials to deepen your knowledge and experience with AWS Storage.

  • Videos
  • Getting started with Amazon S3 - Demo (7:37)
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Overview (1:57)
    Introduction to Amazon EFS (8:15)
    AWS Storage Gateway (2:40)
  • Tutorials
  • 10-Minute Tutorials

    Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore AWS cloud storage services.

    Store and retrieve a file with Amazon S3

    This step-by-step tutorial will help you store your files in the cloud using Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3). Amazon S3 is a service that enables you to store your data (referred to as objects) at massive scale. In this tutorial, you will create an Amazon S3 bucket, upload a file, retrieve the file and delete the file. 

    Learn more »

    Getting started using Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

    The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how easy it is to begin storing your data in the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class, so that you can start experiencing automatic storage cost savings.

    Learn more »

    Getting started using the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes

    Use the S3 console and S3 API to easily archive your data in Amazon S3. The S3 console and S3 API allow you to access all the features and functionality that the Amazon S3 service provides. Follow this tutorial to begin using the S3 console to store your archive datasets in the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes.

    Learn more »

    Batch upload files to the cloud with Amazon S3 and AWS CLI

    In this tutorial we are going to help you use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to access Amazon S3. We will do this so you can easily build your own scripts for backing up your files to the cloud and easily retrieve them as needed. This will make automating your backup process faster, more reliable, and more programmatic. You can use this information to build a scheduled task (or cron job) to handle your backup operations.

    Learn more »

Learn more about Cloud Storage with AWS

  • Videos
  • Getting started with Amazon S3 - Demo
    Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Overview
    Introduction to Amazon EFS
    AWS Storage Gateway
  • Tutorials
  • 10-Minute Tutorials

    Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore AWS cloud storage services.

    Store and Retrieve a File with Amazon S3

    This step-by-step tutorial will help you store your files in the cloud using Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3). Amazon S3 is a service that enables you to store your data (referred to as objects) at massive scale. In this tutorial, you will create an Amazon S3 bucket, upload a file, retrieve the file and delete the file.

    Getting started using Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

    The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how easy it is to begin storing your data in the Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class, so that you can start experiencing automatic storage cost savings.

    Getting started using the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes

    Use the S3 console and S3 API to easily archive your data in Amazon S3. The S3 console and S3 API allow you to access all the features and functionality that the Amazon S3 service provides. Follow this tutorial to begin using the S3 console to store your archive datasets in the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes.

    Batch upload files to the cloud with Amazon S3 and AWS CLI

    In this tutorial we are going to help you use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to access Amazon S3. We will do this so you can easily build your own scripts for backing up your files to the cloud and easily retrieve them as needed. This will make automating your backup process faster, more reliable, and more programmatic. You can use this information to build a scheduled task (or cron job) to handle your backup operations.

AWS Free Tier

The AWS Free Tier offers users an opportunity to explore products for free, with offers including products that are always free, free for 12 months, and short-term free trials.

Get Started

Creating an AWS account is free and gives you immediate access to the AWS Free Tier.