Cost analysis.

image source: AWS pricing calculator.

In this lab you will:

Use the Simple Monthly Calculator to estimate the costs for the scenario.

Scenario:

Web Application with an Amazon RDS hosted database in the US West (Oregon) Region:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(Amazon EC2)

Amazon EC2 provides secure and re-sizable compute capacity in the cloud and is designed to make web scale cloud computing easier for developers allowing to obtain and configure capacity with minimum friction. (Amazon Web Services, 2020)


Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3)





Elastic Load Balancing:
Elastic Load Balancing distributes various workloads across various computer resources in order to scale and balance the traffic  that changes from time to time.(Amazon Web Services, 2020)


Amazon Route 53:
  • With Amazon Route 53, you are not required to pay anything in advance nor do you have any conditions stating a minimum requirement, you only have to pay for what you use.
  • Managing hosted zones: a monthly payment has to be made for each hosted zone managed with Route 53.
  • Serving DNS queries: a charge will be incurred on every DNS query answered by the Amazon Route 53 service, these charges are exempted on queries to Alias A records.
  • Managing domain names: an annual charge is paid for each domain registered or transferred to Route 53.
  • The monthly bill from AWS will list down your total bill for the Amazon  Route 53 service separate from other AWS  services bills(Amazon Web Services, 2020).





Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS):
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service designed to make easy the setup, operations, and scaling of a relational database(Amazon Web Services, 2020).

Amazon RDS is available on several database instance types - optimized for memory, performance or I/O - and provides you with six familiar database engines to choose from, 
including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server(Amazon Web Services, 2020). 

You can use the AWS Database Migration Service to easily migrate or replicate your existing databases to Amazon RDS(Amazon Web Services, 2020).


AWS Support:


Overall Benefits:

  • Eliminates your needs to invest in hardware up front. so you can develop and deploy application faster.
  • You can provision it within minutes and can scale it easily.
  • Available and durable.



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