Cost
You are responsible for the cost of the AWS services used while
running this solution. As of May 2021, the cost for running this
solution with the default settings in US East (N. Virginia) Region
and creating the default AWS Innovation
Sandbox accounts in your AWS Organizations account (deploying
the aws-innovation-sandbox CloudFormation template) is approximately
$70.43 per month. This cost
estimate also accounts for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Transit Gateway, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) that is initiated in the solution’s accounts. Refer to Table 1
for the cost breakdown.
Table 1: Cost estimate for the solution's accounts
| AWS service | Cost per month |
|---|---|
| Costs for management account | |
|
|
| Costs for sandbox account | |
|
|
| Total: | ~$70.43 / month |
For additional pricing information for AWS Transit Gateway and
Amazon S3, refer to the
AWS
Transit Gateway pricing
Cost for running AppStream 2.0
Additional charges accrue when Amazon AppStream 2.0 is initiated
(deploying the aws-innovation-sandbox-appstream CloudFormation
template). Charges will vary depending on the following factors:
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The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type you choose to deploy, which is charged at an hourly rate.
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The total time that the AppStream 2.0 instance is running.
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The size of the AWS CloudTrail logs and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs you choose to store in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets.
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The number of developers and other end users that receives access to the sandbox account.
A set user fee is for each authorized user that launches a streaming session from an Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleet is also incurred during the month. User fees are not incurred for administrators connecting to and using image builders to create images.
The following table provides cost estimates for AppStream 2.0 configuration with different numbers of end users given access to the sandbox account. These developers run on-demand Amazon EC2 instances five hours per day from Monday through Friday. These instances are idle the remainder of the time on a weekly basis.
Table 2: Cost estimate for AppStream 2.0 configuration
| Dimensions | Cost based on the number of end users accessing the sandbox account | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 15 | 25 | |
|
~$30.70 | ~$72.60 | ~$114.50 |
Cost for testing AWS services in a sandbox account
Additional charges will apply if you test AWS services in your sandbox account. Data transfer charges may also apply depending on the data traffic that occurs between your sandbox account and your management account. Refer to the following example use cases and cost estimates to give you an idea of costs for using AWS services in the AWS Innovation Sandbox solution.
Note
The following use cases are examples only. Costs will vary based on the AWS services and third-party applications you run in the sandbox account.
Use case #1: AWS Innovation Sandbox running an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance in the sandbox account.
| AWS service | Dimensions | Cost per month |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon AppStream 2.0 |
|
$72.60/ month |
| Amazon EC2 |
|
$46.80/month |
| Total: | ~$119.40/month |
Use case #2: AWS Innovation Sandbox running an Amazon EMR big data processing workload in the sandbox account.
| AWS service | Dimensions | Cost per month |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon AppStream 2.0 |
|
$72.60 |
| Amazon S3 |
|
$17.25 |
| Amazon EMR |
|
$229.95 |
| AWS Transit Gateway |
|
$20.00 |
| Total: | ~$360.14/month |
Prices are subject to change. For full details, refer to the pricing webpage for each AWS service you will use in this solution.
