A theoretical question about Amazon S3.
There is a difference in pricing for an S3-IA Get Request: $.001 / 10K and an S3 data retrieval cost: $.01.
My question is, what is the difference between a Get Request and a Data Retrieval?
2 Answers
From AWS documentation AWS S3 Pricing, it is mentioned as
When you use the Amazon S3 console to browse your storage, you incur charges for GET, LIST, and other requests that are made to facilitate browsing. Charges are accrued at the same rate as requests that are made using the API/SDK.
Which means a GET request not always need to be a data/file retrieval. It could be querying of some meta information as well.
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