Track spending and usage for Deadline Cloud farms - AWS Deadline Cloud
Cost assumptions

Track spending and usage for Deadline Cloud farms

The AWS Deadline Cloud budget manager and usage explorer are cost management tools that provide the approximate cost of using Deadline Cloud based on available information about cost variables. The cost management tools don't guarantee the amount owed for your actual use of Deadline Cloud and other AWS services.

To help you manage costs for Deadline Cloud, you can use the following features:

  • Budget manager – With the Deadline Cloud budget manager, you can create and edit budgets to help manage project costs.

  • Usage explorer –With the Deadline Cloud usage explorer, you can view how many AWS resources are used and the estimated costs for those resources.

Cost assumptions

The basic calculation used by the Deadline Cloud cost management tools is:

Cost per job =
    (CMF run time x CMF compute rate) +
    (SMF run time x SMF compute rate) +
    (License run time x license rate)

  • Run time is the sum of all tasks in a job, from start time to end time.

  • Compute rate is determined by the AWS Deadline Cloud pricing for service-managed fleets. For customer-managed fleets, the compute rate is estimated to be $1 per worker hour.

  • License rate is determined by the Deadline Cloud base license price and is only available for service-managed fleets. Additional tiers are not included. For more information about license pricing, see AWS Deadline Cloud pricing.

The cost estimate from the Deadline Cloud cost management tools may vary from your actual costs for a number of reasons. Common reasons include:

  • Customer owned resources and their pricing. You can choose to bring your own resources, either from AWS or externally from on-premise or other cloud providers. Actual costs of these resources are not calculated.

  • Idle worker costs. Idle worker costs are not included when the worker status is IDLE. This can happen for fleets with a minimum instance count greater than zero, or when workers transition between jobs. Idle worker cost are not included in calculations.

  • Worker stop and start time. After workers complete a job, the cost for moving from IDLE to STOPPING and from STOPPING to STOPPED is not included in Deadline Cloud cost estimates.

  • Promotional credits, discounts, and custom pricing agreements. The cost management tools don't account for promotional credits, private pricing agreements, or other discounts. You may be eligible for other discounts that are not part of the estimate.

  • Asset storage. Asset storage is not included in the cost and usage estimates.

  • Changes in price. AWS offers pay-as-you-go pricing for most services. Prices may change over time. The cost management tools use the most up-to-date prices publicly available, but there may be delays after changes.

  • Taxes. The cost management tools don't include taxes applied to our purchase of the service.

  • Rounding. The cost management tool perform mathematical rounding of pricing data.

  • Currency. Cost estimates are made in U.S. dollars. Global exchange rates vary over time. If you translate estimates to a different currency base on the current exchange, changes in the exchange rate affect the estimate.

  • Outside licensing. If you choose to use pre-purchased licences (Use your own license), Deadline Cloud cost management tools can't account for this cost.