AWS Pricing Calculator Exercise
SWEN 514/614: Engineering Cloud Software Systems
Department of Software Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Overview 2
u For this activity, we are going to practice using the AWS Pricing Calculator
u This can be used for your Term Project when you are estimating overall costs
u This activity is worth 1 point
u You will be putting together an estimate for the configuration below
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Go to Pricing Calculator 3
u To start, go to https://calculator.aws
u You do not need to be logged into your account
u Click ”Create estimate”
Create and Estimate (CHECK UPFRONT COST)
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u We all need to be in the same data center to get the same costs!
u For starters, we are going to add 2 EC2 servers
u Under “Find Service” enter EC2 and click “Configure” under the Amazon EC2
box
Create and Estimate 5
u There are a lot of options to choose from to configure
u Select 2 servers that are t2.small
u You should see a cost similar to below
u Click “Save and add service”
Create and Estimate 6
u The current costs is listed at the bottom of the screen and will get
updated as you add/remove/modify services
u Click “View Summary”
Updated costs
View Summary 7
u Use this screen to edit/remove any of the services in your estimate
u To add more services, click “Add service”
Update your Estimate 8
u We have added 2 EC2 servers, but there are additional services needed to
finish this estimate:
u Add 1 Route 53
u Hosted Zone should be set to 20,000
u Add 1 Elastic Load Balancing
u 1 Application Load Balancer
u 50 GB/hour of Processed bytes for the EC2 instances
u Add EFS storage
u We need 10 TB of storage with 1 GB of throughput per month
u Add RDS Database
u We are using MariaDB
u We need a db.m4.large server
u Storage volume is Provisioned IOPs SSD of 10TB (1000 IOPs)
u Retention period for performance insights is 12 months
u What was your total costs?
AWS Pricing Calculator – Final Estimate 9
u If you followed the instructions, your estimate should be similar to
below (numbers might be slightly off as costs change)
u Take a screen shot. Upload to myCourses under Assignments > Activity
#7 – AWS Pricing Calculator Exercise
