21
Understanding AWS Pricing @LynnLangit

Understand AWS Pricing

Embed Size (px)

DESCRIPTION

Understanding AWS Pricing

Citation preview

Page 1: Understand AWS Pricing

Understanding AWS Pricing@LynnLangit

Page 2: Understand AWS Pricing

Data Expertise / Lynn LangitIndustry awards• Microsoft – MVP for SQL Server • Google – GDE for Cloud Platform• 10Gen – Master for MongoDBPracticing ArchitectTechnical author / trainer• Google Cloud Series• SQL Server Series • Cloudera certified Developer• 2 books on SQL Server BIFormer MSFT FTE• 4 years

Page 3: Understand AWS Pricing

Common AWS ServicesCompute & Networking• EC2• MapReduceRaw Storage• S3• Glacier

Database• RDS• Redshift• DynamoDB

Deployment & Management• Elastic Beanstalk• Data Pipeline

App Services• Elastic Transcoder• SQS

Page 4: Understand AWS Pricing
Page 5: Understand AWS Pricing

AWS Services

Page 6: Understand AWS Pricing

What is the pricing model?

Core Service Pricing

Add-on services

Vanity services

Page 7: Understand AWS Pricing

About AWS Free Tier• First Year (new) customers only• Does not include all AWS services

Page 8: Understand AWS Pricing

What are the types of pricing?Type Name NotesCore On-demand Standard pricingCore Reserved Higher pricingCore Spot Cheapest pricing, not guaranteed

to be availableCore Data Transfer Charges for In (nearly free) and

OutAdd-on EBS-Optimized Required for Provisioned IOPsAdd-on Elastic IPs Static IPsAdd-on Provisioned IOPs Performance SLAAdd-on Monitoring / Alarms Cloud WatchVanity Gov’t Cloud Private cloud, must qualify for

participationVanity Introductory Free

TierFirst-year, new customers only, does not include all AWS serviceshttp://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Page 9: Understand AWS Pricing

On-demand vs. Reserved EC2Size Cost On-Demand /

hrCost Reserved / 1 yr

Small .09 .06Medium .18 .11Large .36 .23Extra-Large .72 .47

9

NOTES:*for US-East (N. Virginia) for Windows machines*Cost comparisons for reserved is based on ‘light-usage’*Usage charges vary for light, medium or heavy usage

--light and medium usage reservations require an upfront deposit *Costs for 3 yr reserved are lower than for 1 yr

Page 10: Understand AWS Pricing

More About Reserved Instance Types• Full documentation -

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/reserved-instances-offerings.html

• You can sell/buy in the AWS Reserved Instance Marketplace

10

Type Upfront Cost

Hourly Cost Notes

Light Lowest Highest, but you are NOT if you turn your machine off

If using 11-19% of total time, best value

Medium Average Medium, but you are NOT charged if you turn your instance off

Best for use 19-35% of total time

Heavy Highest Lowest, but you are charged for every hour

Best if you plan to use more than 35% of the time

Page 11: Understand AWS Pricing

11

Purchasing Reserved EC2 Instances

Page 12: Understand AWS Pricing

Why use Spot Instances?

12

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/optimizing-for-cost-in-the-aws-cloud-5-ways-to-further-save-aws-summit-2012-nyc-jinesh-varia

Page 13: Understand AWS Pricing

Purchasing Spot EC2 Instances

Page 14: Understand AWS Pricing

AWS Pricing CalculatorDemo

TCO calculator -- http://aws.amazon.com/tco-calculator/

Page 15: Understand AWS Pricing

Cross-Cloud Pricing Calculators

Others…

AWS Cost cheat sheet https://blog.cloudvertical.com/2012/10/aws-cost-cheat-sheet-2/

Helps with vendors, servers and services

RightScale has PlanForCloud

Page 16: Understand AWS Pricing

RS Plan for CloudDemo

Page 17: Understand AWS Pricing

17

Page 18: Understand AWS Pricing

Reading Your Bill

*Tip: Set pricing Alerts

Demo

Page 19: Understand AWS Pricing

AWS Pricing AlertsDemo

Billing alert information -- https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account?ie=UTF8&action=billing-alerts

Page 20: Understand AWS Pricing

Other AWS Billing Tips• TURN IT OFF • Geography Matters• Can purchase premier

support (includes Trusted Advisors & Cost Optimization reports)

• Can download bills and perform analysis

• Can access bills programmatically

• Can consolidate multiple accounts to one bill