AWS Backup Pricing Calculator
Estimate warm vs cold vault storage, cross-region copies, and service-specific backup rates before the 90-day cold minimum and DR replica storage double your protection bill.
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Read the full breakdown — AWS Backup Pricing covers billing dimensions, traps, and a 30-day cleanup plan.
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us-east-1 list rates, pricing as of 2026-06-19. Backup Audit Manager and incremental snapshot deduplication are excluded. Source: AWS public pricing .
Average recovery point storage footprint for the workload.
Who This Tool Is For
FinOps leads, backup operators, and compliance teams sizing DR retention before vault lifecycle policies go live.
Why We Built This Tool
Backup costs split across service-native snapshot lines and AWS Backup-native lines — easy to miss cold-tier minimums and multi-region duplication.
What Problem It Solves
- Cold 90-day trap. Transitioning to cold before 90 days can bill the minimum without savings.
- Cross-region double storage. DR copies bill transfer plus independent destination-region storage.
- DynamoDB PITR premium. Continuous backup bills 2× on-demand backup for the same table size.
Read the full bill story in our AWS Backup pricing guide or talk to our managed services team.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is DynamoDB backup more expensive than EBS or EFS?
DynamoDB on-demand backups bill $0.10/GB-month warm storage; continuous backup (PITR) bills $0.20/GB-month of source table size. EFS, EBS, RDS, and S3 vault backups bill $0.05/GB-month. The DynamoDB premium pays for fully-managed point-in-time recovery.
What is the 90-day cold storage minimum?
AWS Backup cold storage at $0.0125/GB-month requires a 90-day minimum commitment. Recovery points deleted or transitioned out before 90 days bill the remaining days. Only transition to cold when retention exceeds 90 days.
How does cross-region copy pricing work?
Cross-region copy charges $0.02/GB for inter-region transfer plus destination-region recovery point storage at the standard warm or cold rate. Multi-destination DR multiplies storage and transfer linearly.
Is cross-account backup copy free?
Yes — cross-account copies have no inter-account transfer fee. The destination account pays standard recovery point storage; the source account pays source-side storage charges.
Why do backup costs appear under the underlying service in Cost Explorer?
Native snapshots (EBS, RDS) appear under those services. AWS Backup-native features — continuous DynamoDB backup, cold tier, cross-region copies, Audit Manager — appear under the AWS Backup line.
Where do these backup prices come from?
Rates are AWS published us-east-1 list prices (AWS Backup pricing), pricing as of 2026-06-19.