S3-Compatible Object Storage.
No Egress Fees. No Lock-In.
You Shouldn't Have to Pay to Access Your Own Data.
Hyperscaler object storage is cheap to write to and expensive to use. Egress fees make it uneconomical to run AI workloads against your own data at scale. The more your data grows, the worse the economics get.
What hyperscalers charge you for:
- Egress — every time data leaves their network
- API calls above their free tier
- Cross-region replication
- Retrieval from archive tiers
- Data transfer to compute outside their cloud
Aurora charges you for:
- Storage — $5.99 per TiB per month
- Nothing else
No egress fees. No API surcharges. No retrieval penalties.
No surprises.
Simple Pricing. Start For Free.
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Full S3 API compatibility
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Active and archive storage
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No egress fees
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No credit card required
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Full S3 API compatibility
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Active and archive storage
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No egress fees
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Scales to PiB without repricing
Everything You Need. Nothing You Don't.
S3-Compatible API
Full AWS S3 API compatibility. Drop-in replacement for existing S3 workflows — no code changes required for most integrations.
Active + Archive Storage
Single platform for hot data and cold archive. Lifecycle policies move data between tiers automatically.
Immutable Backup
Write-once, read-many (WORM) storage for ransomware recovery and compliance. Data cannot be modified or deleted during the retention period.
Compliance Retention
Configurable retention policies for regulatory requirements. Supports legal hold and audit-ready data governance.
High-Ingest Pipelines
Engineered for AI data ingestion at TiB-to-PiB scale. Sustained throughput without throttling or surprise cost spikes.
No Egress Fees
Data leaves the platform at no cost. Run AI workloads, replicate to other environments, or migrate — without a billing event.
Bucket Management
Standard S3 bucket semantics: access keys, versioning, ACLs, and object lifecycle management built in.
Block Volumes, Filesystem & Snapshots
Beyond object storage: block volumes for compute-attached storage, filesystem mounts, and point-in-time snapshots.
Built for AI Workloads at Scale.
| API Compatibility | AWS S3 (full API compatibility) |
| Storage Classes | Active (hot), Archive (cold) |
| Throughput | 40+ GB/s storage throughput |
| Scale | TiB to PiB — no architectural ceiling |
| Durability | 11 nines (99.999999999%) |
| Backup | Immutable WORM, configurable retention periods |
| Encryption | At-rest and in-transit encryption; BYO KMS supported |
| Access Control | Access keys, bucket policies, ACLs, IAM integration |
| Protocols | S3, block volume (iSCSI), filesystem (NFS/SMB) |
| Pricing | $5.99 / TiB / month — no egress, no API fees |
What People Run on Aurora Storage.
Store and serve large-scale training datasets to GPU infrastructure without egress costs eating into AI economics. High-ingest pipelines handle TiB-scale data movement without throttling.
Retention policies, audit-ready access logs, and immutable storage for organizations with data governance requirements.
Immutable WORM storage for ransomware-resilient backup. Configurable retention and legal hold for regulated industries.
Full S3 API compatibility means most workloads migrate without code changes. No egress fees on the way out of Aurora — and no lock-in once you're in.
Lifecycle policies move data automatically between active and archive tiers. Single namespace across both — no separate retrieval workflow.
Replicate data across Aurora regions without cross-region transfer fees. Serve AI workloads from the region closest to your compute.
Aurora wholesale rates start at $5/TiB — resellers typically price at $12-20/TiB and keep the margin.