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This is pretty amazing. Navigating the EC2 pricing documentation is such a hassle. I tend to think of costs in terms of monthly, as well, and this is valuable when working out cost-proposal estimates for projects I'm pitching to potential clients.
And yes, it is hair pullingly frustrating experience trying to figure out how much an EC2 instance is going to cost you using Amazon's tools.
Huh. Apparently, running Postgres on RDS is tad bit more expensive than MySQL. Why is that?
Q: Why is the pricing for each RDS database engine different?
The pricing for each database engine of RDS varies because our costs are different for each. These costs include many operational components in addition to software licensing. We will continue to work hard to reduce costs and pass on those savings to our customers.
My guess is that Postgresql required them to write much more internal tooling to "get right", and the costs reflect that.
See also: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/
So funny, I just left that page to come here. Thank you, unsung hero/creator!
Would be awesome if it stored your columns, cost, and preference settings in local storage/cookie.
I opened up a PR (https://github.com/powdahound/ec2instances.info/pull/202) to store the rest.
Always see Amazon price reductions being promoted on HN, I didn't relise it's still so expensive, compared to my hetzner dedi.
Depending on your needs, dedicated hardware can run a lot cheaper. You can over-provision by 4x and you're still saving money. There are a lot of other benefits to AWS though, it's a huge ecosystem, and it's much more flexible.
So funny, I just left that page to come here. Thank you, unsung hero/creator!
This is pretty amazing. Navigating the EC2 pricing documentation is such a hassle. I tend to think of costs in terms of monthly, as well, and this is valuable when working out cost-proposal estimates for projects I'm pitching to potential clients.
It is missing is storage and bandwidth costs, which can be a nontrivial chunk of an EC2 bill. And yes, it is hair pullingly frustrating experience trying to figure out how much an EC2 instance is going to cost you using Amazon's tools.
What do you find frustrating? What can we improve? Let us know!
(Disclaimer: I work for AWS.)