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This does not show the costs per bucket. Specifically, I was interested in the costs for data transfer for each of my buckets. As I said, after half an hour of

This does not show the costs per bucket. Specifically, I was interested in the costs for data transfer for each of my buckets. As I said, after half an hour of looking into the "Billing" in AWS, the Cost Explorer and googling around I simply could not find a way to obtain this information.

helsinkiandrew 6y ago
If this is an ongoing issue and you can’t get the information from something that is in front of S3 (cloudfront/your application etc) then you can enable bucket logging in the settings (which costs!)
exhaze 6y ago
You're right, it's shitty of them to not provide that out of the box. However, if it's such a big problem for you, as others have pointed out, it's easy to solve. If you are paying $500/month for S3, you must be processing quite a large amount of data - as another poster pointed out, there's an easy to fix it. If you weren't going to use S3 for this, what would you use instead for this use-case?
- mherrmann 6y ago
  I look forward to migrating to Linode's S3-compatible object storage. I appreciate that you are agreeing that it's shitty of AWS. But I disagree that it's "easy to solve". Like I said, I already spent quite some time looking into how to solve it. And having to set up logging for a bucket (and learning how to do this in AWS's complex interface), and if I understand correctly creating another bucket to receive those logs, and learning how to then obtain and interpret the results? Maybe you're above my paygrade but I do not consider this easy.
  - sk5t 6y ago
    What drew you to using S3 in the first place while also discounting the risk that it might get a lot of use, and thus a lot of cost? Like, if a 100MB file in a public bucket got a bazillion downloads, did you not want that to happen?
- scarface74 6y ago
  I literally just search on Google “How do I find the price per s3 bucket” and the first link is this. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-find-bucket-cost/ https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-fi... Why do people think that they can give Amazon a credit card number and expect everything to be easy enough for them and suitable for a large enterprise? AWS offers something for beginners - Lightsail. When that outgrows their needs, they can peer their behind the scenes LightSail VPC to a full fledge VPC.

helsinkiandrew 6y ago

If this is an ongoing issue and you can’t get the information from something that is in front of S3 (cloudfront/your application etc) then you can enable bucket logging in the settings (which costs!)

exhaze 6y ago

You're right, it's shitty of them to not provide that out of the box. However, if it's such a big problem for you, as others have pointed out, it's easy to solve. If you are paying $500/month for S3, you must be processing quite a large amount of data - as another poster pointed out, there's an easy to fix it. If you weren't going to use S3 for this, what would you use instead for this use-case?

mherrmann 6y ago
I look forward to migrating to Linode's S3-compatible object storage. I appreciate that you are agreeing that it's shitty of AWS. But I disagree that it's "easy to solve". Like I said, I already spent quite some time looking into how to solve it. And having to set up logging for a bucket (and learning how to do this in AWS's complex interface), and if I understand correctly creating another bucket to receive those logs, and learning how to then obtain and interpret the results? Maybe you're above my paygrade but I do not consider this easy.
- sk5t 6y ago
  What drew you to using S3 in the first place while also discounting the risk that it might get a lot of use, and thus a lot of cost? Like, if a 100MB file in a public bucket got a bazillion downloads, did you not want that to happen?
scarface74 6y ago
I literally just search on Google “How do I find the price per s3 bucket” and the first link is this. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-find-bucket-cost/ https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-fi... Why do people think that they can give Amazon a credit card number and expect everything to be easy enough for them and suitable for a large enterprise? AWS offers something for beginners - Lightsail. When that outgrows their needs, they can peer their behind the scenes LightSail VPC to a full fledge VPC.