AWS Pricing Flashcards
Compute
Storage
Outbound Data Transfer
3 Fundamental drivers of cost
Pay hourly from launch to termination
Compute
Data that you store in the cloud
Storage
Data in-flight moving between systems
Outbound Data Transfer
12 months free usage following initial signup date to AWS
12 Months Free
Offers do not expire and are always available
Always Free
Short-term free trials starting from the date you activate a particular service
Trials
5 Ways to pay for these instances
EC2 Pricing
Pay by the hour or by the second
On-Demand
Commit to compute usage measured per hour for a 1- or 3- year term
Savings plan
Commit to usage for 1 or 3 years and pay regardless of usage
Reserved Instances
Launch only if spare capacity is available
Spot Instances
The entire physical server just for you
Dedicated Hosts
Number of Requests
Code Execution Time
Always Free
Lambda pricing
Storage Class
Storage
Data Transfer
Request and data retrieval
S3 Pricing
Financial estimate that helps you understand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Helps plan migration projects to the AWS Cloud that is used to estimate TCO
Application Discovery Service
Minimize large capital expenditures
Reduce total cost of ownership
Utilize reserved instances to help lock in savings
Reduce total cost of ownership
Match the provisioning of resources to your usage needs
Reduce total cost of ownership
Provides an estimate of AWS fees and charges
AWS Pricing Calculator
Query the price of AWS services using JSON or HTML
AWS Price List API