Pricing Calculator
💡 Definition
AWS Pricing Calculator is a web-based planning tool that you can use to create estimates for your AWS use cases. You can use it to model your solutions before building them, explore the price points and calculations behind your estimate, and find the available instance types and contract terms that meet your needs.
🔑 Key Concepts
- Estimation: Calculates the estimated monthly cost of a proposed architecture.
- Modeling: Allows you to configure service details (e.g., "2 EC2 instances, 100GB S3, 1 Load Balancer").
- Sharing: Generates a unique link to share the estimate with stakeholders.
⚙️ How it Works
- Add Service: Select a service (e.g., EC2).
- Configure: Choose Region, Instance Type, Storage, Usage hours.
- Repeat: Add other services (RDS, S3, etc.).
- Review: See total estimated monthly and upfront costs.
🎯 Use Cases
- Budgeting: Estimating costs before starting a project.
- Comparison: Comparing the cost of different architectural approaches (e.g., On-Demand vs Reserved).
- Proposals: generating cost estimates for client proposals.
💰 Pricing Model
- Free: The tool is free to use on the public web.
📝 Exam Tips (CLF-C02)
- Used for estimating costs of new or proposed architectures.
- Replaces the old "Simple Monthly Calculator".
- Does not look at your current usage (that's Cost Explorer).
See Also: * Cost Explorer * TCO (Total Cost of Ownership - usually distinct tools/whitepapers)