Amazon S3 Announces Billing Change for HTTP Error Codes

Amazon S3 has announced that it will no longer charge for certain HTTP error codes, specifically requests that customers did not initiate. This change means that bucket owners will not incur request or bandwidth charges for requests returning an HTTP 403 error response if initiated from outside their individual AWS account or AWS Organization. The billing change applies to all S3 buckets and will be implemented across all AWS Regions. More information can be found on the Billing for Amazon S3 error responses page and the S3 User Guide.

• Amazon S3 will no longer charge for unauthorized requests that customers did not initiate
• Bucket owners will not incur request or bandwidth charges for HTTP 403 error responses if initiated from outside their AWS account or Organization
• The billing change applies to all S3 buckets and all AWS Regions