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How AWS Pricing Works

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Table of Contents

Abstract and introduction ...............................................................................................................

Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................

Are you Well-Architected? ..........................................................................................................................

Key principles ..................................................................................................................................

Understand the fundamentals of pricing ................................................................................................

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Start early with cost optimization ............................................................................................................

Maximize the power of ?exibility .............................................................................................................

Use the right pricing model for the job ..................................................................................................

Get started with the AWS Free Tier ...............................................................................................

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Free trials ........................................................................................................................................................ 4

12 Months Free ............................................................................................................................................. 4

Always Free .................................................................................................................................................... 5

AWS Pricing/TCO Tools ................................................................................................................... 6

AWS Pricing Calculator ................................................................................................................................ 6

Migration Evaluator ...................................................................................................................................... 6

Pricing details for individual services ............................................................................................ 8

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Amazon EC2 ................................................................................................................................................... 8

Pricing models for Amazon EC2 .......................................................................................................... 8

Per-second billing ................................................................................................................................. 10

Estimating Amazon EC2 costs ............................................................................................................ 10

Lambda ......................................................................................................................................................... 11

Lambda pricing ...................................................................................................................................... 11

Additional charges ................................................................................................................................ 12

Amazon EBS ............................................................................................................................................... 12

How Amazon EBS is priced ................................................................................................................. 12

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) ..................................................................................... 13

Estimating Amazon S3 storage costs ............................................................................................... 14

Amazon S3 Glacier ..................................................................................................................................... 14

Data access options .............................................................................................................................. 15

Storage and bandwidth include all ?le overhead .......................................................................... 15

Data transfer .......................................................................................................................................... 15

AWS Outposts ............................................................................................................................................. 15

Pricing of Outposts con?gurations ................................................................................................... 16

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AWS Snow Family ...................................................................................................................................... 17

Snowcone ................................................................................................................................................ 17

Snowball ................................................................................................................................................. 18

Amazon RDS ................................................................................................................................................ 19

Estimating Amazon RDS costs ........................................................................................................... 19

DynamoDB ................................................................................................................................................... 20

Amazon DynamoDB pricing at a glance .......................................................................................... 20

CloudFront ...................................................................................................................................................

CloudFront pricing ................................................................................................................................

Amazon Kendra ..........................................................................................................................................

Amazon Kendra pricing .......................................................................................................................

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Amazon Macie ............................................................................................................................................. 26

Macie pricing .......................................................................................................................................... 26

Amazon Kinesis ........................................................................................................................................... 27

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams .......................................................................................................... 28

Kinesis Video Streams pricing ............................................................................................................ 28

WebRTC pricing ..................................................................................................................................... 28

AWS IoT Events .......................................................................................................................................... 29

AWS IoT Events pricing ....................................................................................................................... 29

AWS Cost Optimization ................................................................................................................. 30

Choose the right pricing models ............................................................................................................ 30

Use RIs to reduce Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon

OpenSearch Service costs ................................................................................................................... 30

Amazon EC2 Cost Savings .................................................................................................................. 30

Match capacity with demand .................................................................................................................. 30

Identify Amazon EC2 instances with low-utilization, and reduce cost by stopping or

rightsizing. .............................................................................................................................................. 30

Identify Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift instances with low utilization and reduce cost

by stopping (RDS) and pausing (Redshift). ...................................................................................... 31

Analyze DynamoDB usage and reduce cost by leveraging AutoScaling or on-demand. ......... 31

Implement processes to identify resource waste ................................................................................ 31

Identify Amazon EBS volumes with low-utilization and reduce cost by snapshotting, then

deleting them ........................................................................................................................................ 31

Analyze Amazon S3 usage and reduce cost by leveraging lower cost storage tiers ................ 32

Review networking and reduce costs by deleting idle load balancers ....................................... 32

AWS Support Plan Pricing ............................................................................................................ 33

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Cost calculation examples ............................................................................................................. 34

AWS Cloud cost calculation example ..................................................................................................... 34

Architecture ............................................................................................................................................ 34

Daily usage pro?le ................................................................................................................................ 35

Amazon EC2 cost breakdown ............................................................................................................. 36

Hybrid cloud cost calculation example .................................................................................................. 38

Hybrid architecture description ......................................................................................................... 38

Hybrid cloud components selection ................................................................................................. 39

Hybrid cloud architecture cost breakdown ...................................................................................... 41

Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................... 43

Contributors ................................................................................................................................... 44

Further reading .............................................................................................................................. 45

AWS Glossary ................................................................................................................................. 46

Document revisions ....................................................................................................................... 47

Notices ............................................................................................................................................ 48

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