<p>AWS stores <strong>whole</strong> AMI as a single non-differential snapshot thus they charge for a full size of files in an image.</p>

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2017-10-18T07:38:29.160Z
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<p>How does AWS calculate the cost of a custom AMI?</p>

<p>If I would create an AMI which is based on Ubuntu 16.04, do I need to pay for the complete size of AMI (e.g. 4GB) or just the differences of my custom AMI to the base AMI (e.g. 0.4GB)</p>

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AWS Storage Cost for a custom AMI
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# AWS Storage Cost for a custom AMI

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-06-23)

How does AWS calculate the cost of a custom AMI?

If I would create an AMI which is based on Ubuntu 16.04, do I need to pay for the complete size of AMI (e.g. 4GB) or just the differences of my custom AMI to the base AMI (e.g. 0.4GB)

**Tags:** amazon-ec2, amazon-s3


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-10-18. Score: 3

AWS stores **whole** AMI as a single non-differential snapshot thus they charge for a full size of files in an image.


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