Requester Pay model
Generally, when you create a bucket in S3, you pay for data storage and data transfer. Based on your usage, charges are added to the AWS account associated with the bucket. Amazon provides an option in which you can configure your bucket as Requester Pays bucket. When you configure a bucket as a Requester Pays bucket, the requester pays for the requests they initiate to download or upload data in the bucket. You just pay for the cost of the data you store in S3:
- You can enable Requester Pays on a bucket when you want to share the data, but do not want to get charged for the requests received, data downloads, or upload operations
- When you enable Requester Pays, AWS does not allow you to enable anonymous access on the bucket
- All requests to Requester Pays buckets must be authenticated; when you enable authentication, S3 can identify requesters and charge them for their respective usage of the bucket
- If a system or application makes requests by assuming an IAM role, AWS charges...