Amazon Backup pricing

With Amazon Backup, you pay only for the amount of backup storage you use and the amount of backup data you restore in the month. There is no minimum fee and there are no set-up charges.

Amazon Backup storage

Amazon Backup storage pricing is based on the amount of storage space your backup data consumes. For the first backup of an Amazon Web Services resource, a full copy of your data is saved. For each incremental backup, only the changed part of your Amazon Web Services resource is saved.*

Product Pricing Glossary

GB-Hours: Measure of the average gigabytes of backup storage used in an hour

GB-Month: Measure of the average gigabytes of backup storage used in a month

Backup Storage Pricing

China (Beijing) Region 

Resource Type Warm Storage Cold Storage
Amazon EFS File System Backup ¥0.348 per GB-Month ¥0.07 per GB-Month
Amazon EBS File System Backup  ¥0.311 per GB-Month n/a†
Amazon RDS Database Snapshot ¥0.580 per GB-Month n/a†
Amazon DynamoDB Table Backup ¥0.880 per GB-Month ¥0.29per GB-Month *
Amazon Storage Gateway Volume Backup ¥0.200 per GB-Month n/a†
Amazon FSx File System Backup ¥0.315 per GB-Month n/a†
Amazon Redshift Table Backup    
First 50TB ¥ 0.195 per GB-Month n/a†
Next 450TB ¥ 0.191 per GB-Month n/a†
Over 500 TB ¥ 0.181 per GB-Month n/a†

China (Ningxia) Region 

Resource Type Warm Storage Cold Storage
Amazon EFS File System Backup ¥0.348 per GB-Month ¥0.07 per GB-Month
Amazon EBS File System Backup  ¥0.277 per GB-Month n/a†
Amazon RDS Database Snapshot ¥0.516 per GB-Month n/a†
Amazon DynamoDB Table Backup ¥0.880 per GB-Month ¥0.29 per GB-Month *
Amazon Storage Gateway Volume Backup ¥0.200 per GB-Month n/a†
Amazon FSx File System Backup ¥0.279 per GB-Month n/a†
Amazon Redshift Table Backup    
First 50TB ¥ 0.1755 per GB-Month n/a†
Next 450TB ¥ 0.1719 per GB-Month n/a†
Over 500 TB ¥ 0.1629 per GB-Month n/a†

Restore Pricing

China (Beijing) Region

Resource Type Warm Storage Cold Storage Item-level Restore
Amazon EFS File System Backup ¥0.139 per GB ¥0.209 per GB ¥3.482 per request
Amazon EBS Volume Snapshot Free n/a† n/a†
Amazon RDS Database Snapshot Free n/a† n/a†
Amazon DynamoDB Table Backup ¥1.320 per GB ¥1.760 per GB* n/a†
Amazon Storage Gateway Volume Backup Free n/a† n/a†
Amazon FSx File System Backup Free n/a† n/a†
Amazon Redshift Table Backup Free n/a† n/a†

China (Ningxia) Region

Resource Type Warm Storage Cold Storage Item-level Restore
Amazon EFS File System Backup ¥0.139 per GB ¥0.209 per GB ¥3.482 per request
Amazon EBS Volume Snapshot Free n/a† n/a†
Amazon RDS Database Snapshot Free n/a† n/a†
Amazon DynamoDB Table Backup ¥1.320 per GB ¥1.760 per GB* n/a†
Amazon Storage Gateway Volume Backup Free n/a† n/a†
Amazon FSx File System Backup Free n/a† n/a†
Amazon Redshift Table Backup Free n/a† n/a†

† Cold storage is currently supported for backups of EFS file systems only

* Cold storage backup and restore for DynamoDB is only available when you opt-in to advanced features for DynamoDB.

Backups that are transitioned to Cold Storage have a minimum 90 days of storage, and backups deleted before 90 days incur a pro-rated charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days.

Cross-region data transfer pricing

Cross-region data transfer of EFS file systems and DynamoDB tables between Beijing region and Ningxia region will be priced at ¥ 0.731 per GB.

Cross-region data transfer of Amazon EBS, Amazon FSx, Amazon Storage Gateway, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon RDS Backup between Beijing region and Ningxia region will be priced at ¥ 0.6003 per GB.

Pricing examples

The storage amount billed in a month is based on the average storage space used throughout the month. Your storage usage is measured in GB-Month, which are added up at the end of the month to generate your monthly charges.


The restore amount billed in a month is based on the amount of data restored for the month. The data restored in a month is measured in GB, and represents the sum of the data across all the restores performed in the month.


Example 1:


Assume your Amazon EFS backups are stored in the Beijing (BJS) region. You use 400 GB of Amazon EFS backup storage during 15 days in April and 800 GB for the other 15 days in April. At the end of April, you would have the following backup storage usage, in GB-Hours:

Total usage (GB-Hours) = [400 GB x 15 days x (24 hours / day)] + [800 GB x 15 days x (24 hours / day)] = 432,000 GB-Hours

We add up GB-Hours and convert to GB-Month to calculate monthly charges:

Total Monthly Storage Charge = 600 GB-Month x ¥0.348 = ¥208.8

Let’s also assume that you restored 10 backups that were 1GB each. At the end of April, you would have the following backup restore usage, in GB:

Total usage 10 restores x 1 GB = 10 GB

Total Monthly Restore Charge = 10 GB x ¥0.139 = ¥1.39

Adding both your backup storage and backup restore charges together gives you your total monthly Amazon Backup bill:

Total Monthly Amazon Backup Bill = ¥208.8 + ¥1.39 = ¥210.19

*This applies to all backup storage except for on-demand DynamoDB table backups and Amazon Aurora cluster backups, which create full backups.

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