3 years, 3 months ago
How do you estimate pricing on Amazon's EC2 service?
Prefer to see something other than the price calculator. How do you make real-world estimates?
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There is an official calculator here:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
First:
Find the total ROUNDED size of your storage. If you have a lot of small files, you have to usually double your estimate.
Second:
You should have a good idea of transfer in from previous months. However, when you "go Live", you will find you have to update your content, so estimate another 15%
Third:
Data transfer out - this is the wild card. Starting up, this is 10-20% of your storage, but if you get popular, it can be more than 300%
Last:
Requests I usually do not account for, except if I have a LOT of small files.
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
First:
Find the total ROUNDED size of your storage. If you have a lot of small files, you have to usually double your estimate.
Second:
You should have a good idea of transfer in from previous months. However, when you "go Live", you will find you have to update your content, so estimate another 15%
Third:
Data transfer out - this is the wild card. Starting up, this is 10-20% of your storage, but if you get popular, it can be more than 300%
Last:
Requests I usually do not account for, except if I have a LOT of small files.
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