Calculating costs
AWS Simple Monthly Calculator is a website application provided to help you estimate and forecast your AWS costs. By listing the resources you expect to consume you can calculate your pay-as-you-go costs, which is how AWS bills you—there's no upfront costs involved.
Getting ready
In order to use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator effectively, you need to already know the specific services and resources that you will use on a monthly basis.
You also need to know specifics about things such as monthly data transfer and the amount of data you will need to store. In AWS, you get charged for data in and out of AWS (for example, visitors to your website), but not between AWS services (for example, EC2 instances to RDS databases).
How to do it...
- Go to the calculator website, http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html:
- Select/deselect the free usage tier option as relevant for your account—if the account is less than 12 months old, you are eligible for the free usage tier.
- Make sure...
