AWS Systems Manager pricing

AWS Systems Manager provides a unified user interface where you can track and resolve operational issues across your applications and resources on AWS, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) instances and in multicloud and hybrid environments. With AWS Systems Manager, you can start for free with features included with the AWS Free Tier. There are no minimum fees or upfront commitments. Limits may apply.

Calculate your AWS Systems Manager and architecture cost in a single estimate.

Just-in-time node access helps remove long-standing permissions to nodes while maintaining operational efficiency. Customers can move towards zero-standing privileges by requiring operators to request access to Amazon EC2, hybrid, and multicloud nodes managed by AWS Systems Manager.

Just-in-time node access is an account level feature. When you enable just-in-time node access in an account, all nodes managed by AWS Systems Manager are enabled with the feature. For accounts enabled across an AWS Organization, all usage across accounts and Regions is aggregated in the Consolidated Billing family.

Just-in-time node access also provides a one-time free trial. Every AWS account in each Region that is enabled with just-in-time node access receives a free trial. You will be able to use just-in-time node access at no additional charge for the remainder of the billing cycle that just-in-time node access was enabled as well as one additional billing cycle.

If an account is opted into just-in-time node access, any nodes in that account using the advanced on-premises instance tier will not incur a cost. See the “On-Premises Instance Management” section of this page for more information on the advanced on-premises instance tier.

As part of the AWS Free Tier, you can get started with the following AWS Systems Manager features for free. Limits may apply.

No additional charges apply for enabling Explorer. Limits may apply.

Explorer uses priced OpsCenter APIs (GetOpsSummary) to populate its dashboard. Charges from these API requests will apply. The Export to CSV option executes an Automation document with an aws:executeScript action step. These steps may be charged as per Automation pricing.

OpsCenter provides a central location that operations engineers and IT professionals can use to view, investigate, and resolve operational issues related to any AWS resource. Operational issues, referred to as OpsItems, are aggregated and standardized in a consolidated view, providing contextually relevant data that helps with diagnosis and remediation.

OpsCenter is priced on a pay-per-use model. You’ll be charged based on the number of OpsItems created in your account per month, as well as the number of Get, Describe, Update, and GetOpsSummary API calls made. Additionally, the service calls other public APIs in order to surface relevant diagnostic information, which will be included in the bill from each respective service.

Assume you begin a month with 10,000 OpsItems in your account, and over the course of the month you create 1,000 new OpsItems. Over the course of the month you also make 100,000 Get, Describe, Update, and GetOpsSummary API requests for your OpsItems. Your monthly bill will be as follows:

Cost of creating 1,000 OpsItems = 1,000 OpsItems * $2.97 per 1,000 OpsItems created = $2.97

Cost of 100,000 create API request = 0

Cost of 100,000 Get, Describe, Update, and GetOpsSummary API requests = 100,000 * $0.039 per 1,000 API = $3.90

Total monthly cost = Cost of creating new OpsItems + Cost of Get, Describe, Update, and GetOpsSummary API requests = $6.87 per 1,000 OpsItems and corresponding 100,000 API requests

Additional charges: You may incur additional charges if the operation of your application workflow utilizes other AWS services or transfers data. For example, if your application workflow invokes an AWS Lambda function, you will be billed for each request and for the duration of each Lambda function. For details on AWS service pricing, see the pricing section of the relevant AWS service detail pages. Except as otherwise noted, our prices are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, including VAT, GST, and applicable sales tax.

Incident Manager helps you prepare for incidents with automated response plans. Response plans execute runbook actions, track incident updates, and enable chat-based collaboration while automatically notifying the appropriate people to respond. With Incident Manager, you are charged based on the number of response plans active in a month. Incident Manager includes up to 100 SMS or Voice messages per month; additional messages are charged based on the recipient’s country.

Additionally, response plans use Systems Manager OpsCenter and Automation to track actions and execute runbooks; you will be charged based on OpsCenter and Automation pricing for OpsItems created and runbook steps executed. CloudWatch customers will also be billed separately for their metrics, alarms, and dashboards.

With AppConfig, you can configure, validate, deploy, and monitor your feature flags or any dynamic configuration. Those flags and configurations can be validated syntactically or semantically in the pre-deployment phase, and can be monitored and automatically rolled back if an Amazon CloudWatch alarm that you have configured is triggered. Using AWS AppConfig, you can reduce errors in configuration changes, deploy changes across a set of targets quickly, update applications with reduced opportunities for interruption, and control deployment of changes across your applications.

You pay only for what you use.

With AWS AppConfig, you pay each time you request configuration data from AWS AppConfig via API calls, as well as each time your requesting target receives configuration data in response to that request.

A target refers to the host that receives the application configuration (this could be an Amazon EC2 instance, on-premises server, container, AWS Lambda function, mobile app, IoT device, etc.).  If you are using multi-variant feature flags, you will not be charged when requesting data on multiple variants within the same version of a flag or configuration profile, as variant data is cached locally.

Assume you have one application configuration that updates three times a day. Also assume that you have 2,000 targets in your fleet that are requesting configuration data via API, every two minutes, to check if an updated configuration is available. Each time an updated configuration is available, AWS AppConfig sends the updated configuration in response to the request for configuration. Over the course of a month, your targets will receive a total of 180,000 (updated) configurations and your bill would be as follows:

Cost of configuration requests = 1 (configurations) * 2000 (servers) * 0.5 (calls per minute) * 60 (minutes) * 24 (Hours)* 30 (days) * $0.0000002 (price per request)
=$8.64

Cost of configurations received =1 (configurations) * 2000 (servers) * 3 (updates a day) * 30 (days) * $0.0008 (price per configuration received)
=$144

Total monthly cost = $152.64

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store consists of standard and advanced parameters. Standard parameters are available at no additional charge. When you create advanced parameters, you are charged based on the number of advanced parameters stored each month and per API interaction. Charges for parameters stored for less than a month are prorated on an hourly basis. To learn more about advanced parameters visit the AWS Systems Manager documentation or product page.