Migrating to the cloud is an important step for any company because it gives them much more flexibility and agility in their processes, plus many services. The AWS pricing often increases by passing the months and the time after the migration.
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In this blog, I’ll show the ideal expense for various environments, from very basic to a real production environment using three or more AWS services.
How does the AWS Pricing Works?
AWS hosting costs vary and depend on the service you are using. Different methods can calculate these prices, but the main one is based on the time of usage. As AWS says, you pay for what you use. Hours are the main factor in this method, followed by the minutes and seconds of use of certain services.
In this case, I’m going to detail different services located in the US East—Virginia region. I.
The services we are always going to see on our AWS bill will be the basic ones:
Storage
- EBS – $0.08 USD GB per hour
- S3 (Standard Tier) – $ 0.023 GB per month(First 50 TB)
Computing power
In summary, I will use servers and services to process all our application’s information.
- EC2 (Price depends of our server type, starting from 5 USD to over 150 USD x month)
- Load Balancer ( 16.2 USD x 750 hrs)
- Elastic IP (3.6 USD per month)
Networking
Amazon charges all the data that is transferred outside of their own network, that is to say, that everything that we want to move in and out of AWS will cost us. This is one of the primary services that shows our bill, and there are different costs:
- Inbound traffic – It’s free
- Outbound traffic – Starting with 0.09 per GB <10 TB
I should mention that Amazon’s traffic (between instances, services, and regions) is cheaper than the traffic handled outside of Amazon.
A clear example of how costs vary in AWS is Fargate Pricing; read the blog for real-life cases.
Example AWS Architectures with Costs
Basic Environment – (Website Hosting) $100 to $200 USD Monthly
Intermediate Environment – (High Performance Website Hosting) $250 to $600 USD Monthly
Advanced Environment – (Highly Scalable and Available) $600 to $2500 USD Monthly
Of course, all these prices can vary depending on the type of EC2 instance, the type of RDS (if it is multi-region), the traffic/load, the CloudFront caching, the required storage, etc.
Extra Tips for AWS Savings
- Use Spot Instances
- Use Reserved Instances
- Use fully managed services
- Use Dedicated instances for the required type of work
- Monitor Amazon CloudWatch cost
- Always consider the bandwidth
To sum up about AWS pricing
As you can see, determining the cost of any application can be challenging if you ignore cloud computing services. Every cost varies according to the type of app in the Cloud and the type of work that it manages. Here at ClickIT, we can help you optimize AWS pricing and reduce your AWS billing to prevent billing surprises.
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