AWS PRICING:

• There are three fundamental drivers of cost with AWS:
  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Outbound data transfer.
• AWS offers pay-as-you-go for pricing.

• For certain services like Amazon EC2, Amazon EMR, and Amazon RDS, you can invest in reserved capacity. With Reserved Instances, you can save up to 75% over equivalent on-demand capacity. When you buy Reserved Instances, the larger the upfront payment, the greater the discount.
  • With the All Upfront option, you pay for the entire Reserved Instance term with one upfront payment. This option provides you with the largest discount compared to On-Demand instance pricing.
  • With the Partial Upfront option, you make a low upfront payment and are then charged a discounted hourly rate for the instance for the duration of the Reserved Instance term.
  • The No Upfront option does not require any upfront payment and provides a discounted hourly rate for the duration of the term.
• There are also volume-based discounts for services such as Amazon S3.
• For new accounts, AWS Free Tier is available.
  • Free Tier offers limited usage of AWS products at no charge for 12 months since the account was created. More details at https://aws.amazon.com/free/.

• You can estimate your monthly AWS bill using AWS Pricing Calculator.
  • Estimate the cost of migrating your architecture to the cloud.
  • Generate the lowest cost estimate for your workload.