Pricing and usage cost for Malware Protection for S3
The pricing in Malware Protection for S3 works differently than other protection plans in GuardDuty. While most of the GuardDuty protection plans follow a 30-day short term free trial, Malware Protection for S3 follows 12 months Free Tier plan in AWS. For information about GuardDuty pricing, see Pricing in GuardDuty.
The following list provides the pricing costs associated with using Malware Protection for S3.
- Free Tier plan (scanning cost)
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Each AWS account gets a 12-month Free Tier that includes usage up to a specific limit per month for each Region. Each AWS account gets a monthly free tier usage up to 1,000 requests and 1 GB data scanned. If your usage goes beyond the specified limit, you will start incurring the usage cost for the exceeded limit. For complete pricing details, see GuardDuty protection plans pricing
. For information about the usage cost after enabling Malware Protection for S3, see Reviewing usage cost for Malware Protection for S3.
- S3 Object Tagging usage cost
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When you enable Malware Protection for S3, it is optional to enable tagging for your scanned S3 objects. When you choose to enable S3 Object Tagging, there is an associated usage cost. For more information about the costs, see Management & insights tab
on the Amazon S3 pricing page. S3 Object Tagging usage cost is not included in the Free Tier plan.
- Amazon S3 APIs - GET and PUT usage cost
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You will incur usage cost when GuardDuty runs the Amazon S3 APIs based on the IAM role. For example, after assuming the IAM role, GuardDuty runs the
PutObjectAPI to add the test object to your selected bucket. This helps GuardDuty assess the enabled status of the feature.For information about pricing of S3 API calls in your AWS Region, see Requests & data retrievals under the Storage & requests tab
on the Amazon S3 pricing page.
