Streaming ingestion cost
Amazon Data Firehose Pricing Calculator
Model Firehose ingestion, format conversion, and VPC delivery before you pipe logs to the wrong target.
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Ingestion volume
us-east-1list rates, pricing as of 2026-10-20. Firehose has no per-destination fee. Destination charges (S3 storage, OpenSearch, Redshift, Splunk), Lambda transforms, and Kinesis Data Streams source charges bill separately and are excluded. VPC delivery assumes 2 AZs. Source: AWS public pricing.
$0.029/GB ingestion in us-east-1.
Delivery destination
Firehose charges the same for every destination. Only delivery into a VPC adds a Firehose fee.
Estimated Firehose Cost
Ingestion + conversion + VPC delivery
Total Monthly Cost
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S3: $0.00
OpenSearch: $0.00
Redshift: $0.00
Splunk/HTTP: $0.00
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FactualMinds designs log routing architectures — Firehose to S3 for retention, OpenSearch for search, and sampling to cut ingestion volume.
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Data engineers and FinOps leads choosing between Firehose destinations for logs, events, and streaming ETL.
Why We Built This Tool
Firehose bills $0.029/GB ingested whatever the destination. The destination drives the rest of the bill: an OpenSearch domain or Redshift cluster costs far more than S3 storage.
What Problem It Solves
- Wrong destination. Shipping all logs to OpenSearch when only 5% need search means sizing a domain for 100% of the volume. S3 + Athena holds the rest for cents per GB.
- CloudWatch comparison. Firehose to S3 at ~$0.029/GB vs CloudWatch Logs at $0.50/GB ingest — 94% cheaper for retention.
- Conversion overhead. Parquet conversion adds $0.018/GB — worth it for Athena query savings, not for raw archive.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where do these Data Firehose prices come from?
AWS published us-east-1 list prices (Amazon Data Firehose pricing), pricing as of 2026-10-20.
Is delivery to S3 free?
S3 delivery has no additional per-GB Firehose charge beyond ingestion (and optional format conversion). You still pay S3 storage separately.
Does Firehose charge more to deliver to OpenSearch or Redshift?
No. Firehose has no per-destination delivery fee in us-east-1. The difference is the destination itself: OpenSearch domain and Redshift cluster hours bill separately. The one delivery fee is VPC delivery, $0.01/GB plus $0.01 per AZ-hour, when the destination sits inside a VPC.
Does Lambda data transformation cost extra in Firehose?
Firehose does not charge for invoking a Lambda transform. You pay AWS Lambda for the invocations and duration at normal Lambda rates.
How does Firehose compare to CloudWatch Logs?
CloudWatch Logs ingestion is $0.50/GB. Firehose ingestion is $0.029/GB — route retention logs to S3 via Firehose and reserve CloudWatch for real-time alerting.
What does format conversion cost?
Converting to Parquet or ORC adds $0.018/GB. The trade-off is cheaper Athena queries and smaller S3 storage over time.
Do I need Kinesis Data Streams with Firehose?
Firehose can ingest directly from producers or use Kinesis Data Streams as a source. Kinesis shard hours bill separately if you use streams as a buffer.
