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Re: Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs

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Post by BDangIT » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 2:58 PM UTC

alpb wrote: post #7

It would be great to see Windows Azure costs on this calculator. Great job indeed! People usually also use Cloud Storage services (s3 etc), maybe you can do something for that.

Storage has been on my todo list. It's been a little difficult to grasph since AWS and Rackspace offer both block storage as well which charge differently than just straight GET/POST/PUT operations.

Re: Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs

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Post by BDangIT » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 2:59 PM UTC

wgx wrote: post #8

Suggestion: it would be nice to see RDS instances in here too.

This is also on the roadmap as well. Since I'm seeing the trend for Database-as-a-Service.

Re: Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs

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Post by BDangIT » Fri, Aug 24, 2012, 3:02 PM UTC

jabo wrote: post #2

For Amazon AWS, I find Amazon's tool to be much more detailed: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

This was the source of my fustruation. I needed something quick and dirty to share with my clients. While I could create a spreadsheet to do it and there are a lot of them out there, I'd figure I just help others out there by creating a simple app.

Re: Show HN - Calculator that estimates your cloud costs

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Post by okrasz » Mon, Aug 27, 2012, 9:04 PM UTC

nodata wrote: post #4

I'd like to be able to compare the same thing across providers. e.g. what's the price difference between an AWS medium instance and the equivalent on Joyent/Rackspace?

Try http://www.cloudorado.com/ it does exactly that. You specify the requirements (RAM, CPU, etc) and it finds appropriate options from multiple providers.