Estimating costs with the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator

The AWS Total Cost of Ownership or TCO Calculator is designed to provide you with a ballpark view of how much it will cost you to run an equivalent infrastructure on AWS in comparison to your co-located or on-premises data center.

The calculator has been audited by an independent third party, but you should, of course, check its output against your own calculations before you make any purchasing decisions.

Getting ready

In this example, we're going to describe a typical three-tier rails image processing application that is running with a modest amount of hardware. You can use our example configuration, or follow along with your own hardware requirements.

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