Why EBS Snapshot store in S3 but EBS Snapshot price = 2x S3 Standard Price

Question

As AWS mentioned in docmuent, EBS Snapshot will store in S3. But price for EBS Snapshot is more expensive than S3 price.
For example, in Singapore region, 
- EBS Snapshot price for Standard is $0.05/GB-month
- S3 Standard price for Standard is  $0.025 per GB

David C · Answer

Although under the hood EBS snapshots uses s3 as storage method, they are different services and therefore have different prices. EBS snapshots offers a variety of features such as point in time snapshots, incremental backup... For further details around the pricing and features of this service you can visit the following [resource](https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/?nc1=h_ls).

Why EBS Snapshot store in S3 but EBS Snapshot price = 2x S3 Standard Price

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