Finding prices in the service price list file
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The Amazon Price List Bulk API provides prices for all Amazon products for informational purposes, including On-Demand and Reserved Instances pricing.
To find the prices and terms for a specific product, you can use the offer files. For example, you can find a list of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance prices.
Note
The Amazon Price List Bulk API is not a comprehensive source for limited period offers,
such as Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier pricing. For information about Free Tier prices, see Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier
To find prices for the products you're interested in.
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Finding On-Demand prices for services
The following procedure shows how to find On-Demand prices for Amazon Web Services services, such as Amazon EC2.
To find an On-Demand price by using the CSV file
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Download the CSV file for the service.
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Open the CSV file with your preferred application.
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Under the TermType column, filter to show OnDemand.
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Find the usage type and operation that you want.
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In the PricePerUnit column, see the corresponding price.
To find an On-Demand price by using the JSON file
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Download the JSON file for the service.
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Open the JSON file with your preferred application.
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Under terms and On-Demand, find the SKU that you want.
If you don't know the SKU, search under products for the usage type and operation.
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See the pricePerUnit to find the corresponding On-Demand price for the SKU.
Finding tiered prices for services
The following procedure shows how to find tiered prices for services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
To find tiered prices for services by using the CSV file
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Download the CSV file for the service.
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Open the CSV file with your preferred application
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Under the TermType column, filter to show OnDemand.
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Find the usage type and operation that you want.
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In the PricePerUnit column, see the corresponding price for each StartingRange and EndingRange.
To find tiered prices for services by using the JSON file
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Download the JSON file.
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Open the JSON file with your preferred application.
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Under terms and On-Demand find the SKU that you want.
If you don't know the SKU, search under products for the usage type and operation.
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Under each beginRange and endRange, see the pricePerUnit to find the corresponding tiered prices.
Finding tiered prices for services with Free Tier
The following procedure shows how to find Amazon Web Services services that publish Free Tier prices in the Amazon Price List Bulk API, such as Amazon Lambda.
All Free Tier prices are subject to the terms documented in Amazon Web Services China Region Free Tier
To find prices for services with Free Tier by using the CSV file
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Download the CSV file for the service.
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Open the CSV file with your preferred application.
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Under the TermType column, filter to show OnDemand.
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Under the Location column, filter to show Any.
Any doesn't represent all Amazon Web Services Regions in this scenario. It's a subset of Regions defined by other line items in the CSV file, with a RelatedTo column matching the SKU for the location Any entry.
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To find a list of all eligible locations and products for a specific Free Tier SKU, find the Free Tier SKU under the RelatedTo column.
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To find the covered usage by Free Tier across all eligible locations, see the StartingRange and EndingRange for the location Any.
Example
This example assumes there are no more entries in the price file where
RelatedTo equals to the SKU ABCD.
As shown in the following table, the Free Tier offer with SKU
ABCD is valid in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and
US East (Ohio) Regions, but not in Amazon GovCloud (US).
The covered usage by Free Tier is 400,000 seconds total, used across both
eligible Regions.
| SKU | StartingRage | EndingRange | Unit | RelatedTo | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ABCD |
0 |
400000 |
seconds |
Any |
|
QWER |
0 |
Inf |
seconds |
ABCD |
Asia Pacific (Singapore) |
WERT |
0 |
Inf |
seconds |
ABCD |
US East (Ohio) |
ERTY |
0 |
Inf |
seconds |
AWS GovCloud (US) |
To find tiered prices for services with Free Tier by using the JSON file
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Download the JSON file for the service.
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Open the JSON file with your preferred application.
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Under products, find the usagetype with the Region prefix Global.
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Take note of the SKU, and look for the same SKU under terms and OnDemand.
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For the amount of Free Tier usage, see the BeginRange and EndRange .
For a list of products and Regions covered by Free Tier, see appliesTo.
Finding prices for services with Reserved Instances
The following procedure shows how to find prices for services with Reserved Instances, such as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
To find prices for a Reserved Instance by using the CSV file
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Download the Amazon EC2 CSV file.
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Open the CSV file with your preferred application.
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Under the TermType column, filter to show reserved.
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Find the usage type and operation that you want.
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For each LeaseContractLength, PurchaseOption, and OfferingClass, see the PricePerUnit column for the corresponding price.
To find prices for Reserved Instances by using the JSON file
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Download the JSON file for the service.
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Open the JSON file with your preferred application.
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Under terms and Reserved, find the SKU that you want.
If you don't know the SKU, search under products for the usage type and operation.
You can find prices for LeaseContractLength, PurchaseOption, and OfferingClass for the same product.