Two days ago, Amazon announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) calculator on their blog. I can see this becoming quite useful, and am, in fact, surprised that they didn’t do this earlier.
You can access the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator here. The calculator, currently in Beta, allows you to get an idea of the kind of costs you can expect for different services that you might use. They’ve even had a stab at typical figures you might be seeing for some ‘typical use cases’.
Don’t see the use cases? You need to scroll to the right if your resolution is 1024 x 768 (or lower) – see the screenshot above.
The five use cases they have are (comments in brackets are my own):
- A marketing website (bandwidth intensive; requests from visitors)
- A Web App (would use more of computing resources, including DB)
- A Media application (storage & bandwidth intensive)
- HPC Cluster (CPU intensive)
- Disaster Recovery & Backup (storage intensive and computing to a lesser degree)
Take the numbers with a pinch of salt (an ounce, in the case of DR & Backup). But that’s not the point – I think it is pretty bold of them to hazard a guess knowing fully well that one size won’t fit all…
Rather than take the numbers at face value, you should focus on the AWS services in the ‘mix’, i.e. the different services that AWS assume you will use for each scenario. It serves to give you a good idea of the services you should be looking at.
We’ll take a more detailed look and provide some data that’s more relevant to StoreGrid + AWS deployments. Stay tuned.
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