The aws story.
designed to scale Amazoncomwhrn their vendors failed at, they improved performance very well, so they offered to same to customers, now they are building a new processor to beat amd and intel.
pay as you go, pay less when you reserve, pay less when you use more.
Amazon EC2 Pricing compute machines
AWSEC2Free tier
available for both new & existing customers, just you have to create account
always free, 12 months free, trail
1
750hours per month 12months
light shail 1 month free trial
5GB storage per month free 12months free
750 hours per month upto 12 months free
20GB managed rdbms,(mysql,presql,postgresql,etc)
always free
Amazon dynamo DB 25GB always free
Mobile SNS
push messaging services
1M publishes
100K https deliveries
1000 Email delivery
on demand or hourly billing
region selected Mumbai India
with free linux server
large, 2vcpu, 4gb ram 0.051$
Medium
small
micro
Nano
cpu optimized, GPU optimized, ram optimized instances are there.
storage: EBS Only, NVME or sata ssd.
paid servers like rhel, windows extra..
billing really complexed.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
but sperate storage.
spot instances (testing purposes)
Saving plans (1-3 year plans like shared hosting)
reserved instances
dedicated hosting
1 year or 3 years contract reserved plans at discount rate
no upfront then pay monthly discount at 37%.
full upfront for 1 year reduced hourly rate discounted at 41%.
paying upfront fee partial as half and then hourly billing( discount rate 40%)
(pricing based on on demand, reserved, saving plans)
- EC2 Instance Savings Plans rate for t3a.xlarge in the US East (Ohio) for 1 Year term and No Upfront is 0.0943 USD
- Hours in the commitment: 365 days * 24 hours * 1 year = 8760.0000 hours
- Total Commitment: 0.0943 USD * 8760 hours = 826.0680 USD
- Upfront: No Upfront (0% of 826.068) = 0.0000 USD
- Hourly cost for EC2 Instance Savings Plans = (Total Commitment – Upfront cost)/Hours in the term: (826.068 – 0.0000)/8760 = 0.0943 USD
- *Please note that you will pay an hourly commitment for Savings Plans and your EC2 usage will be accrued at a discounted rate against this commitment.
Pricing calculations
- 1 instances x 0.0943 USD x 730 hours in month = 68.84 USD (monthly instance savings cost)
- Amazon EC2 Instance Savings Plans instances (monthly): 68.84 USD
not talking here about cloud storage,
AMazon block storage cost EBS cloud SSD
- 30 GB x 0.10 USD x 1 instances = 3.00 USD (EBS Storage Cost)
- Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) pricing (monthly): 3.00 USD
Amazon pricing calculator
beware of bandwidth that billed after the usage.
So what is bandwidth.
note: Salesforce uses Amazon AWS.
Amazon TCO calculators
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by reducing the need to invest in large capital expenditures and providing a pay-as-you-go model .
Describe your existing or planned on-premises or hosting infrastructure in four steps, or enter detailed configurations.
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also read google cloud pricing, digital ocean pricing