AWS Costs Cheat Sheet

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Post by edbyrne » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 5:34 PM UTC

AWS Costs Cheat Sheet
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Post by JackJ » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 5:45 PM UTC

Helpful - thanks

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Post by ck2 » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 6:00 PM UTC

my mini-comparison

  Cloud Static Storage (cents/gigabyte)

  site	      storage        bandwidth

  dreamobjects  7		7		http://dreamhost.com/cloud/dreamobjects/pricing/
  cloudfiles 	10		18		http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/files/pricing/
  amazon s3	12.5		12		http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

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Post by Florin_Andrei » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 6:06 PM UTC

The AWS cost structure is byzantine in its complexity. This cheat sheet helps a lot. Thank you.

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Post by spindritf » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 6:28 PM UTC

ck2 wrote: post #3

my mini-comparison Cloud Static Storage (cents/gigabyte) site storage bandwidth dreamobjects 7 7 http://dreamhost.com/cloud/dreamobjects/pricing/ cloudfiles 10 18 http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/files/pricing/ amazon s3 12.5 12 http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

What about performance?

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Post by ojbyrne » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 7:06 PM UTC

Useful. QA Comment: There's a typo in Instance Sizes, "mirco."

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Post by scottyallen » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 7:07 PM UTC

This is very useful. Spot instance costs would be really doubly useful, particularly if you can put them alongside on-demand costs.

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Post by calpaterson » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 7:07 PM UTC

Aren't the on-demand prices a bit useless? Doesn't everyone reserve instances?

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Post by mfringel » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 7:15 PM UTC

calpaterson wrote: post #8

Aren't the on-demand prices a bit useless? Doesn't everyone reserve instances?

Everyone reserves instances, but they do other things, too.

You can do a setup based on application demand, such that you have reserved instances for baseline load, and then a mix of spot instances and on-demand instances for load/spikes over baseline.

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Post by flyt » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 7:19 PM UTC

scottyallen wrote: post #7

This is very useful. Spot instance costs would be really doubly useful, particularly if you can put them alongside on-demand costs.

Spot instance prices change hourly, so they probably don't make sense to add to a static list like this.