Last updated on June 11, 2023
AWS Pricing Cheat Sheet
- There are three fundamental drivers of cost with AWS:
- AWS offers pay-as-you-go pricing.
- For certain services like Amazon EC2, Amazon EMR, and Amazon RDS, you can invest in reserved capacity. With Reserved Instances, you can save up to 75% over equivalent on-demand capacity. When you buy Reserved Instances, the larger the upfront payment, the greater the discount.
- With the All Upfront option, you pay for the entire Reserved Instance term with one upfront payment. This option provides you with the largest discount compared to On-Demand instance pricing.
- With the Partial Upfront option, you make a low upfront payment and are then charged a discounted hourly rate for the instance for the duration of the Reserved Instance term.
- The No Upfront option does not require any upfront payment and provides a discounted hourly rate for the duration of the term.
- There are also volume-based discounts for services such as Amazon S3.
- For new accounts, AWS Free Tier is available.
- Free Tier offers limited usage of AWS products at no charge for 12 months since the account was created. More details at https://aws.amazon.com/free/.
- You can estimate your monthly AWS bill using AWS Pricing Calculator.
- Estimate the cost of migrating your architecture to the cloud.
- Generate the lowest cost estimate for your workload.
AWS Pricing Cheat Sheet Resources:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/whitepapers/latest/how-aws-pricing-works/how-aws-pricing-works.pdf
https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/how-aws-pricing-works/amazon-ec2.html
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