Glacier Retrieval Pricing

Restores from Glacier are charged on two dimensions, by API request, which is one per object (or file), and by GB restored. I've excerpted a relevant section from our S3 FAQ page below:

Q: How much does it cost to retrieve data from Amazon S3 Glacier?

There are three ways to restore data from Amazon S3 Glacier – Expedited, Standard, and Bulk Retrievals - and each has a different per-GB retrieval fee and per-archive request fee (i.e. requesting one archive counts as one request). For detailed S3 Glacier pricing by AWS Region, please visit the Amazon S3 Glacier pricing page.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/

So if I'm requesting to restore a folder that has 2,000 files, the requesting fee will be $20 for expedite?

Expedite is $10 per 1,000 requests.

Yes, assuming the cost of expedited restore requests is $10 per 1,00 requests, the request cost to restore 2,000 objects will be $20. However, there will also be a cost be GB restored for those objects.

Suggest looking at our AWS calculator (https://calculator.aws/) to model the cost before initiating the restore. You can also use standard or bulk to reduce the retrieval costs.