Pricing

Question 1

What is one way to save on money with FSX for Lustre

Answer 1

You can use the Lustre data compression feature to achieve cost savings on your high-performance Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems and backup storage. When data compression is enabled, Amazon FSx for Lustre automatically compresses newly written files before they are written to disk and automatically uncompresses them when they are read.

This is done by using the LZ4 algorithm

Question 2

How does FSX for Lustre pricing work

Answer 2

It depends on file system type (Persistent/Scratch), storage throughput, storage amount, if backups are involved, and how long the system is operational.

Question 3

What is the cheapest file system and most expensive

Answer 3

Cheaper=Scratch which is 200MB/s/TiB and .070 per GB month
Expensive=Persistent which is 1000MB/s/TiB and .300 per GB month

Question 4

How does data transfer charges work for FSx

Answer 4

Data transferred “in” to and “out” from Amazon FSx across Availability Zones or VPC Peering connections in the same AWS Region is charged at $0.01/GB in each direction.

Data transferred “out” from Amazon FSx to another AWS Region (including for copying backups across Regions) is charged at the inter-region rate for the specific inter-region transfer. So this is .02 per GB in commercial regions and .03 per GB in GovCloud

Question 5

What is the hourly cost of hpc6a.48xlarge in GC W

Answer 5

$3.467

Question 6

What is the hourly cost of hpc6id.32xlarge in GC W

Answer 6

$6.8544

Question 7

How does EC2 pricing work

Answer 7

On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour or second (minimum of 60 seconds) with no long-term commitments.

Question 8

What are costs for me to transfer data into AWS

Answer 8

There is no charge for inbound data transfer across all services in all Regions.

Question 9

What are costs for me to transfer data from AWS

Answer 9

Assuming you have a site to site VPN configured it is .065 per hour (GC W). You will also be charged per GB of data transferred.

AWS customers receive 100GB of data transfer out to the internet free each month, aggregated across all
AWS Services and Regions (except China and GovCloud). The 100 GB free tier for data transfer out to the internet
is global and does not apply separately or individually to AWS Regions.
First 10 TB / Month $0.155 per GB
Next 40 TB / Month $0.115 per GB
Next 100 TB / Month $0.09 per GB
Greater than 150 TB / Month $0.065 per GB