Ralph Rebske: AWS Pricing and Billing
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This document summarizes an AWS user group presentation on pricing and billing basics. It discusses metrics for hourly, volume, and count-based pricing; different instance types and ways to run instances; AWS regions; traffic pricing; S3 storage pricing; EBS pricing; how to calculate costs; billing best practices like using the AWS calculator, choosing the right instance types, locations, and storage. It also compares reserved vs on-demand instance pricing.
Ralph Rebske: AWS Pricing and Billing
- 1. AWS: Pricing and Billing AWS User Group Treffen 01/11 Ralph Rebske
- 2. Agenda • Pricing and Billing: Basics • Instance Types, Regions • Traffic • S3 Storage • EBS • Calculations • Billing • Best Practices
- 3. Pricing & Billing: Basics • Metrics – Hourly Based (Instances) – Volume Based (Transfer) – Volume and Time Based (Storage) – Count Based (Requests, IO‐Rates, IP‐Remaps)
- 4. Instance Types • Various Instance Types (S3‐/EBS‐backed) – Standard: Small (32), Large, Extra Large – Micro: 32/64 – High‐Memory: Extra Large, Double XL, QXL – High‐CPU: Medium (32), Extra Large – Cluster Compute: Quadruple Extra Large – Cluster GPU: Quadruple Extra Large • Three Ways to Run an Instance – On‐Demand – Reserved (1 year / 3 years) – Spot
- 5. Regions • Various Regions – US • US East (Virginia) • US West (California) – EU West (Ireland) – AP (Singapore)
- 6. Traffic EC2 • Within an Availability Zone: $0.00 (Free) when using private IP addresses, $0.01 otherwise • Regional Data Transfer: $0.01 • In and Out of EC2: $0.08 … $0.19/GB
- 7. S3 • Storage ($0.055…0.154 per GB/month) • Reduced Redundancy Storage ($0.037 … 0.103 per GB/month) • Transfer – In ($0.100 per GB) – Out ($0.080…0.190) per GB • Requests – PUT, COPY, POST, LIST: ($0.01/0.011 per 1.000 req) – GET ($0.01/0.011 per 10.000 req)
- 8. Elastic Block Storage • Metrics EBS – GB/month of provisioned storage ($0.10/0.11) – Millions of I/O requests ($0.10/0.11 per 1 mil.) • Metrics EBS S3 (Snapshots) – GB/month of data stored ($0.15/0.18) – PUT requests (saving) ($0.01/0.012) per 1.000 req. – GET requests (loading) ($0.01/0.012) per 10.000 req.
- 9. Calculate • Use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator in order to „guess“ costs • Compare Results of Calculator to Monthly Statement
- 10. Billing
- 13. Consolidated Billing (3) • Advantages – Simplifies per Client Billing – Common use of Reserved Instances – Accounts are combined More likely to qualify for volume discounts – Fewer Restrictions (IP‐Addresses) • Disadvantages – Sharing of resources gets more complicated
- 14. Best Practices • AWS Monthly Calculator • Choosing the right Instance Type – 32/64 Bit (Upgrade / Downgrade) – On‐Demand / Reserved / Spot • Choosing the right Location • Choosing the right Storage (S3/EBS) • Periodic Review
- 15. Reserved‐ vs. On‐Demand‐Instances Sample: High‐CPU Instance, Medium ( EU‐Region, On‐Demand: $0.19/h, Reserved: $0.08, 1yr: $455, 3yr: $700 Price, US$ Hours used On‐Demand‐Instance Reserved Instance, 1yr Reserved Instance, 3yr
- 16. Thougts on Instance‐Types • Make sure your application scales • Benchmark Phoronix m1.small: $0.085 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit m1.large: $0.085 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit m1.xlarge: $0.085 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit m2.xlarge: $0.076 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit m2.2xlarge: $0.076 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit m2.4xlarge: $0.076 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit c1.medium: $0.034 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit c1.xlarge: $0.034 per hour per EC2 Compute Unit • Watch your Activity Report
- 17. Thank you!