Cost Optimization & FinOpsPart 14
palaniappan p6 min
Amazon Macie Pricing: Why Scanning a 500 GB Bucket Can Cost $500
Macie bills two ways: bucket-level evaluation at $0.10 per bucket per month, and sensitive-data discovery at $1.00 per GB inspected. A 500 GB bucket scanned for PII costs $500 just for the discovery; multi-bucket organizations easily hit $10K+ per month. Automated discovery is cheaper than full jobs but compounds across the bucket footprint.