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Is there any info on Search costs when searching AWS S3 buckets?

  • March 11, 2025
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Erin Sweeney
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Is there any info on Search costs when searching AWS S3 buckets?   Specifically on how data transfer works.  For example, does Search hit S3 from US East and is $.01 per GB against my AWS account?  Is Search caching at all? https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?p=pm&c=s3&z=4


Original post was from https://cribl-community.slack.com/archives/C03HK1K33FA/p1678133798883439

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  • Inspiring
  • 198 replies
  • March 11, 2025

On the AWS side, you pay for API calls to the bucket. Assuming the bucket is in the same region as the Cribl.Cloud instance, there is no data transfer fee. Assuming you're using S3 standard storage tier, the API calls we would be making:
LIST: $0.005/1000 requests
GET: $0.0004/1000 requests


Erin Sweeney
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  • Employee
  • 21 replies
  • March 11, 2025

My region via the overview page says us-west-2.  Does this mean it is to my advantage to host my s3 in us-west-2?


  • Inspiring
  • 198 replies
  • March 11, 2025

Yes, otherwise you're paying extra money to search that bucket.


Erin Sweeney
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  • Employee
  • 21 replies
  • March 11, 2025

Okay, thanks.  Also, are there any logs showing the buckets and/or objects being hit from Search?  I only saw logs from stream, edge, etc.


  • Employee
  • 3 replies
  • March 11, 2025

S3 access logs should be visible in the Search Status page, and when searching the internal Search logs themselves


cbreshears
  • Community Manager
  • 7 replies
  • March 11, 2025

Use case you mention above,  if I am not searching, will I get charged api hits? consistantly?


  • Employee
  • 3 replies
  • March 11, 2025

you only get charged API hits when you actively run a search. There's no background or periodic updates that occur at this time.


cbreshears
  • Community Manager
  • 7 replies
  • March 11, 2025

This definitely helps with understanding how it works, thanks! 


  • Employee
  • 3 replies
  • March 11, 2025

we've actually added to the docs some information for clarity here: https://docs.cribl.io/search/set-up-s3#data-transfer-charges