Macie Pricing Calculator - S3 Security & Sensitive Data Discovery

Macie charges approximately $0.10 per bucket per month for S3 bucket inventory and continuous security monitoring. The 30-day free trial includes monitoring for up to 10,000 buckets.

Macie uses tiered pricing for data inspection: the first 50 TB per month costs $1.00 per GB, the next 450 TB costs $0.50/GB, and data over 500 TB costs $0.25/GB. Automated discovery includes a 1 GB/month free tier after the 30-day trial.

Automated discovery continuously samples objects from your S3 buckets and charges object monitoring plus tiered inspection fees. Targeted discovery lets you create custom jobs to scan specific buckets or prefixes with no object monitoring charges.

New Macie accounts receive a 30-day free trial that includes bucket monitoring for up to 10,000 buckets and 150 GB of automated data inspection. After the trial, you get a permanent 1 GB/month free tier for automated discovery.

Yes, Macie generates S3 GET and LIST request charges at standard S3 rates when accessing objects for inspection. Use our S3 pricing calculator to estimate request costs.

Macie focuses on S3 data security with bucket monitoring and content inspection. GuardDuty provides broader threat detection across CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs.