AWS Networking

Four services account for most of an AWS networking bill: NAT Gateways, load balancers, data transfer and, for public traffic, CloudFront. API Gateway sits in front of them for API traffic and bills per request. Each has its own page with rates, alternatives and a calculator.

Pick a service

Headline rates in us-east-1 (CloudFront: United States viewers); open a page for every region
NAT GatewayHourly and per-GB processing rates by region.
  • $0.045/hr per gateway
  • $0.045/GB processed
See rates & calculator →Load BalancersALB, NLB, Gateway and Classic compared.
  • ALB $0.0225/hr + $0.008/LCU-hr
  • NLB $0.0225/hr + $0.006/NLCU-hr
  • Classic $0.025/hr + $0.008/GB
See rates & calculator →Data TransferCross-AZ, inter-region, internet egress and public IPv4.
  • Cross-AZ $0.01/GB each way
  • To us-west-2 $0.02/GB
  • Internet $0.09/GB after 100 GB
See rates & calculator →API GatewayREST, HTTP and WebSocket API pricing with a monthly bill estimator.
  • REST $3.50 per 1M requests
  • HTTP $1.00 per 1M requests
  • WebSocket $1.00 per 1M messages
See rates & calculator →CloudFrontCDN transfer and requests by viewer geography.
  • $0.085/GB, first 10 TB (US viewers)
  • $0.01 per 10,000 HTTPS requests
  • Free: 1 TB + 10M requests a month
See rates & calculator →
Architecture Guide

Five Architectural Rules to Cut Your AWS Networking Bill

Read our in-depth analysis on eliminating NAT Gateway processing fees, configuring Kubernetes topology-aware hints, and avoiding public IPv4 charges.

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Pricing reference

Raw AWS billing SKUs (1864 records), searchable on each service's page