Learning how to use the AWS pricing and TCO calculators
AWS offers calculators to help you estimate costs associated with setting up and deploying resources on AWS. Two key calculators are the AWS Pricing Calculator and Migration Evaluator (previously known as the TCO Calculator).
The AWS Pricing Calculator
The AWS Pricing Calculator is a tool used to calculate the estimated monthly costs of deploying and configuring AWS services and resources. You can use the AWS Pricing Calculator to work out estimated monthly charges for your projects and applications that you wish to deploy on AWS. You can view prices per service or per group of services to analyze your proposed architecture costs.
You can then send the estimate's unique link to other team members, finance, and your clients to help analyze the potential cost of the project.
To see how the AWS Pricing Calculator works, let's take an example of a simple application solution comprising elastic load balancers...