Reserved Instance Options
- All upfront (AURI) - high discount
- Partial upfront (PURI)
- No upfront (NURI) - low discount
How do you pay for AWS?
- Pay-as-you-go
- Save when you reserve
- Pay less by using more (benefit from economy of scale)
Tiered Pricing are available for
- Amazon S3
* Data transfer out of EC2
Free usage tier are available for
- Amazon S3
- Amazon EBS
- Amazon ELB
- AWS Data Transfer
etc.
Consolidated Billing
If you consolidate billing across multiple accounts, AWS would consolidate the bills and you can still take tiering benefits based on usage across multiple accounts.
In AWS clients pay primarily for (Core service categories)
- Compute Capacity
- Storage
- Outbound Data transfer (aggregated) - aggregation across : EC2, S3, RDS, Simple DB, SQS, SNS, VPC and charged at outbound data transfer rate
No Charge for : Inbound data transfers
Amazon EC2 pricing
- Charge only for capacity used, clock - sec/hr of server time
- For On demand - pay by the hour, min 60 sec
- For Reserved - low/no upfront payment, discount on hourly charge
- For Spot instance - Bid for unused capacity
- Pricing could vary by: AWS region, OS, instance type, instance size
- OS cost is included
Amazon CloudWatch pricing
Basic monitoring is free Detailed monitoring (fixed rate, pro rated partial month)
Autoscaling pricing
Auto adjusts number of instances at no additional charge
Elastic IP address pricing
No charge for 1 when associated with a running instance
Amazon S3 pricing
Storage Class :
* Standard Storage - Durability - 11 9s | Availability - 4 9s
* Standard In freq Access(S-IA) - Durability - 11 9s | Availability - 3 9s
Storage Cost - # + size of objects and Storage type
Request Cost Factor - # + type request + Amount of data transfer out
Amazon EBS pricing
Cost by Volume types by amount provisioned and IOPS (Input output Ops per sec):
- Geneal Purpose (SSD) - IOPS (included)
- Provisioned IOPS (SSD) - IOPS (Charged by amount provisioned):
- Magnetic - IOPS (Charged by # of requests):
EBS volume snapshots pricing
Additional cost from the EBS pricing
Cost per GB-month of data storage + Outbound data transfer charge (aggregated tiered)
Amazon RDS pricing
- Resource charge on Clock hour of server time (Launch to terminate)
- Physical capacity of DB used (engine, size, memory class)
DB purchase type: - On Demand instance - hourly
- Reversed instance - Low one time upfront (1/3 yr term) - No charge for backup storage 100% of DB storage
Amazon CloudFront pricing
Pricing varies by geo-region (edge location) - based on request + data transfer out
Trusted Advisors provides best practices in 4 categories
- Cost Optimization
- Performance
- Security
- Fault Tolerance
