Amazon EC2 cost breakdown
The following table shows the characteristics for Amazon EC2 used for this dynamic site in the US East Region.
Characteristic | Estimated Usage | Description |
---|---|---|
Utilization | 100% | All infrastructure components run 24 hour per day, 7 days per week |
Instance | t3a.xlarge | 16 GB memory, 4 vCPU |
Storage | Amazon EBS SSD gp2 | 1 EBS volume per instance with 30 GB of storage per volume |
Data backup | Daily EBS snapshots | 1 EBS volume per instance with 30 GB of storage per volume |
Data transfer |
Data in: 1 Tb/month Data out: 1 Tb/month |
10% incremental change per day |
Instance scale | 4 | On average per day, there are 4 instances running |
Load Balancing | 20 Gb/Hour | Elastic Load Balancing is used 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. It processes a total of 20 Gb/Hour (data in + data out) |
Database | MySQL, db.m5.large instance with 8 GB memory, 2 vCPUs, 100 GB storage | Multi-AZ deployment with synchronous standby replica in separate Availability Zone |
The total cost for one month is the sum of the cost of the
running services and data transfer out, minus the AWS Free Tier
discount. We calculated the total cost using the
AWS Pricing Calculator
Table : Cost breakdown
Service | Monthly | Annually | Configuration |
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Elastic Load Balancing | $87.60 | $1051.20 | Number of Network Load Balancers (1), Processed bytes per NLB for TCP (20 GB per hour) |
Amazon EC2 | $439.16 | $5269.92 | Operating system (Linux), Quantity (4), Storage for each EC2 instance (General Purpose SSD (gp2)), Storage amount (30 GB), Instance type (t3a.xlarge) |
Amazon Elastic IP address | $0 | $0 | Number of EC2 instances (1), Number of EIPs per instance (1) |
Amazon RDS for MySQL | $272.66 | $ 3271.92 | Quantity (1) db.m5.large, Storage for each RDS instance (General Purpose SSD [gp2]), Storage amount (100 GB) |
Amazon Route 53 | $183.00 | $2,196.00 | Hosted Zones (1), Number of Elastic Network Interfaces (2), Basic Checks Within AWS (0) |
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) | $92.07 | $1,104.84 | Data Transfer cost, Inbound (from: Internet) 1 TB per month Outbound (to: Internet) 1 TB per month Intra-Region 0 TB per month |