Questions tagged with AWS Pricing Calculator

I am running a t3.xlarge EC2 instance for daily Veeam backup for MS365. The job only runs for about 20 minutes per day. I am looking for the best / most straightforward method to reduce costs of this instance. I started looking into using instance scheduler to start and stop the instance based on a schedule, and also looked into different instance options that may "bank" compute resources? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

How can we make sure what is the spot instance price boundaries as preflight? specifically the min price

On my bill, I see `$0.672 per On Demand Linux with SQL Std m6i.xlarge Instance Hour` but here https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ I see it's `m6i.xlarge $0.192 4 16 GiB EBS Only Up to 12500 Megabit`

Hi all, A newbie here. I want to run a small personal Wordpress blog (more like a CV/portfolio page with little content) on AWS. I am interested in learning how Fargate/containers work, that's why I set myself a challenge to run this blog as a container rather than on EC2. I have configured Docker desktop and successfully run the WP container (based on WP and mySQL images) locally. Now my idea is that I need to deploy this container to AWS (Next steps to register a domain via Route 53, etc, but I am not concerned about it now). Questions: 1. I googled first, but most of the proposed solutions for running a Wordpress site in a container on AWS mention also using EC2/RDS/S3. Why? My understanding is that if I run both WP + MySQL in a container, I shouldn't need any other AWS services. --- 2. What would be the costs for running a simple container like that? In the Pricing Calculator one of the parameters is the length of the task, and I'm somewhat confused here. My idea is that I just start the container once and it keeps running till it fails for some reason, and then it just gets restarted. Thank you! Regards E

Our service is using this API to get database instance information. Today we started seeing it returning something like "usagetype":"APN1-CPUCredits:db.t3" which is clearly mixed up of multiple fields. Also we found there is no longer a region in the result, and there is only one DB engine associated with each instance type.

Aws could add a new column in all Princing tables to contain 30 day price? instead of only hourly prices. I know that there are months with 28,29 and 31 days... But 30 days gives a good average and is easier to compare different instances, instead of opening an excel, copying name and hourly price and multiplying every thing by 720

Does aws free-tier t3.micro servers have a max? Just created a Jenkins controller and a worker agent node, wondering how many agents I can add to the #DevOps ecosystem. I also plan to deploy a Nexus repository and a prometheus/Grafana monitoring server on yet other t3.micro servers. Will I incur a bill?

Hi, I have been building a product using AWS free tier. To understand its economic viability, I wanted to get an estimate what charges would I incur basis my current usage if I was not under free tier. There is a separate pricing calculator which provides an estimate but what I need is some way to get monthly non-free tier charge estimate based on my current free-tier usage. Is there a simple way to get this data? Thanks, Dbeings

Is there a tool for projecting pricing?

Hi I am wondering which of the following two ways to sync files from a S3 bucket to local is cheaper (assume 10GB of new data per day and 1TB of data constantly in the bucket): 1. perform `aws s3 sync s3://bucketname /local/path` 2. use a S3 file system on a t2.micro bastion EC2 instance in the same region. Do `rsync` from the bastion server and transfer files from S3 file system to local I have difficulty estimating the pricing for S3 solutions. If there is an even better approach than the above to sync from S3 to local, I am happy to know as well. I appreciate any suggestions from you!

I imagine the checking of signed URLs is more computationally expensive for AWS, but I can't see how much more it costs anywhere.

I thought I was dealing with a new browser extension issue but it wasn't. I tried to create a new calculator estimate and added a couple EC2 instances with a description of "DC's". When trying to save, I get a "We have encountered an unexpected error in the calculator" and it fails to save. No link will show and it says to post it to this forum. If I just call them "Domain Controllers" then it saves just fine.

Recently one of my EC2 encountered a problem and becomes unavailable. I stopped it and it takes about 1 hour to complete with a stopping status. I'm wondering whether I will be charged the expense during this time period. One more question, as this is the EC2 life cycle: Start ACTION -> Health Check 1/2 In-progress -> Health Check 2/2 OK -> Running -> Stop ACTION -> Stopping -> Stopped. What is the checkpoint regarding the expense charging? From when to when? Thank you!