AWS Key Management Service pricing

Each customer master key (CMK) that you create in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) costs $1/month until you delete it, regardless of where the underlying key material was generated by the service, a custom key store, or you imported it. For a CMK with key material generated by the service, if you opt-in to have it automatically rotate the key each year, each new key version raises the cost of the CMK by $1/month. AWS KMS retains and manages each previous version of the CMK to ensure you can decrypt data encrypted under previous versions. Data key pairs, which are created by GenerateDataKeyPair and GenerateDataKeyPairWithoutPlaintext API requests are charged for these API requests per the usage pricing discussed below. You are not charged an ongoing monthly fee for the data key pairs themselves as they are neither stored nor managed by the service.

You are not charged for the following:

• Creation and storage of AWS managed CMKs. These keys are automatically created on your behalf when you first attempt to encrypt a resource in an AWS service that integrates with AWS KMS. You can neither manage the lifecycle or access permissions on AWS managed keys.
  
• Customer managed CMKs you created that are scheduled for deletion. If you cancel the deletion during the waiting period, the CMK will incur charges as though it was never scheduled for deletion.
  

You have the option of using an AWS CloudHSM cluster to generate and store your CMKs. The use of a custom key store does not affect the charges for storing and using a CMK. However, a custom key store does require you to maintain an AWS CloudHSM cluster that contains at least two HSMs. More HSMs can be added for improved availability and performance. The standard AWS CloudHSM charges apply. See the pricing example.

AWS Key Management Service provides a free tier of 20,000 requests/month calculated across all regions that the service is available.

*Requests to the GenerateDataKeyPair and GenerateDataKeyPairWithoutPlaintext APIs and requests to APIs such as Sign, Verify, Encrypt, Decrypt, and GetPublicKey that reference asymmetric CMKs are excluded from the free tier. 

1 CMK used as a master key when creating 250 encrypted EBS volumes per month via the AWS KMS CLI or APIs.

Cost Dimensions:

• 1 CMK
• 3 X 250 API requests to create and provision a unique data encryption key for each of 250 volumes

1 CMK used to encrypt 10,000 unique files that are collectively decrypted for access 2,000,000 times per month.

Cost Dimensions:

• 1 CMK
• 10,000 Encrypt requests (1 request x 10,000 objects)
• 2,000,000 Decrypt requests to access the objects

Monthly Cost:

1 CMK used to encrypt 10,000 unique files that are collectively decrypted for access 2,000,000 times per month. A CloudHSM cluster containing 2 HSMs is maintained in US East (N. Virginia) for the entire month.

Cost Dimensions:

• 1 CMK
• 10,000 Encrypt requests (1 request x 10,000 objects)
• 2,000,000 Decrypt requests to access the objects
• 2 CloudHSM instances

Monthly Cost:

1 ECC 256 CMK used to sign 100,000 files via the AWS KMS CLI or APIs.

Cost Dimensions:

• 1 CMK
• 100,000 signing requests
  

Monthly Cost:

If you enable AWS CloudTrail on your account, you can obtain logs of API calls made to or by AWS KMS. See the AWS CloudTrail pricing page for more information.