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ec2 pricing_and_capacity

Philip (flip) Kromer edited this page Jan 30, 2013 · 12 revisions

Compute Costs

code         	$/mo	 $/day	 $/hr	Mem/$	CPU/$	  mem 	  cpu 	cores	cpcore	storage	 disks	 bits	ebs-opt	IO
t1.micro       	  15	  0.48	  .02	   13	   13	  0.61	  0.25	 0.25	  1   	      0	     0	   32	    -	Low
m1.small       	  47	  1.56	  .065	   26	   15	  1.7 	  1   	 1   	  1   	    160	     1	   32	    -	Moderate
m1.medium      	  95	  3.12	  .13 	   15	   15	  3.75	  2   	 2   	  1   	    410	     1	   32	    -	Moderate
c1.medium      	 124	  4.08	  .165	   10	   30	  1.7 	  5   	 2   	  2.5 	    350	     1	   32	    -	Moderate
m1.large       	 190	  6.24	  .26 	   29	   15	  7.5 	  4   	 2   	  2   	    850	     2	   64	  500	High
m2.xlarge      	 329	 10.80	  .45 	   38	   14	 17.1 	  6.5 	 2   	  3.25	    420	     1	   64	    -	Moderate
m1.xlarge      	 380	 12.48	  .52 	   29	   15	 15   	  8   	 4   	  2   	   1690	     4	   64	 1000	High
m3.xlarge      	 424	 13.92	  .58	   26	   22	 15   	 13   	 4   	  3.25	      0	     0	   64	    -	Moderate
c1.xlarge      	 482	 15.84	  .66	   11	   30	  7   	 20   	 8   	  2.5 	   1690	     4	   64	    -	High
m2.2xlarge     	 658	 21.60	  .90	   38	   14	 34.2 	 13   	 4   	  3.25	    850	     2	   64	    -	High
m3.2xlarge     	 847	 27.84	 1.16	   26	   22	 30   	 26   	 8   	  3.25	      0	     0	   64	    -	High
cc1.4xlarge    	 950	 31.20	 1.30	   18	   26	 23   	 33.5 	 8   	  4.2 	   1690	     4	   64	    -	10GB
m2.4xlarge     	1315	 43.20	 1.80	   38	   14	 68.4 	 26   	 8   	  3.25	   1690	     2	   64	 1000	High
cg1.4xlarge    	1534	 50.40	 2.10	   10	   16	 22   	 33.5 	 8   	  4.2 	   1690	     4	   64	    -	10GB
cc2.8xlarge    	1753	 57.60	 2.40	   25	   37	 60.5 	 88   	16   	  5.5 	   3370	     2	   64	    -	10GB
hi1.4xlarge    	2265	 74.40	 3.10	   20	   11	 60.5 	 35   	16   	  2.2 	   2048	 ssd 2	   64	    -	10GB
cr1.8xlarge    	2557	 84.00	 3.50	   70	   25	244   	 88   	16   	  5.5 	    240	 ssd 2	   64	    -	10GB
hs1.8xlarge    	3361	110.40	 4.60	   25	    8	117   	 35   	16    	  2.2 	  49152	    24	   64	    -	10GB

Storage Costs

                        $/GB..mo		$/GB.mo  	$/Mio
EBS Volume     			$0.10
EBS I/O       			            	         	$0.10
EBS Snapshot S3			$0.083

                     	Std $/GB.mo		Red.Red. $/GB.mo
S3 1st tb            	$0.125     	 	$0.093
S3 next 49tb         	$0.110     	 	$0.083
S3 next 450tb        	$0.095  		$0.073

Storing 1TB data

(Cost of storage, neglecting I/O costs, and assuming the ratio of EBS volume size to snapshot size is as given)

How much does EBS cost?

The costs of EBS will be similar to the pricing structure of data storage on S3. There are three types of costs associated with EBS.

Storage Cost + Transaction Cost + S3 Snapshot Cost = Total Cost of EBS

NOTE: For current pricing information, be sure to check Amazon EC2 Pricing.

Storage Costs

The cost of an EBS Volume is $0.10/GB per month. You are responsible for paying for the amount of disk space that you reserve, not for the amount of the disk space that you actually use. If you reserve a 1TB volume, but only use 1GB, you will be paying for 1TB.

  • $0.10/GB per month of provisioned storage
  • $0.10/GB per 1 million I/O requests

Transaction Costs

In addition to the storage cost for EBS Volumes, you will also be charged for I/O transactions. The cost is $0.10 per million I/O transactions, where one transaction is equivalent to one read or write. This number may be smaller than the actual number of transactions performed by your application because of the Linux cache for all file systems. $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests

S3 Snapshot Costs

Snapshot costs are compressed and based on altered blocks from the previous snapshot backup. Files that have altered blocks on the disk and then been deleted will add cost to the Snapshots for example. Remember, snapshots are at the data block level. $0.15 per GB-month of data stored $0.01 per 1,000 PUT requests (when saving a snapshot) $0.01 per 10,000 GET requests (when loading a snapshot)

NOTE: Payment charges stop the moment you delete a volume. If you delete a volume and the status appears as "deleting" for an extended period of time, you will not be charged for the time needed to complete the deletion.