Which factors drive Amazon S3 Standard storage costs? (Select TWO.)
Choose 2 answers.
A.Amount of data stored per month
Correct — GB-month of storage is the primary cost.
B.Number of vCPUs allocated
S3 is serverless storage — no vCPUs exist to bill.
C.Requests made (PUT, GET, etc.) and data transferred out
Correct — request pricing plus egress are the other dimensions.
D.Number of IAM users accessing the bucket
IAM identities are free and don't meter S3 cost.
E.The bucket's name length
Bucket names have no cost dimension.
Why this answer
S3 pricing = storage per GB-month (by tier) + requests (PUT/GET/etc. priced per 1,000) + data transfer out. Compute resources and IAM counts play no role.
Correct answers: A, C · Last reviewed 2026-11-01
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