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AWS Calculator References

AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS. You can 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. This enables you to make informed decisions about using AWS. You can plan your AWS costs and usage or price out setting up a new set of instances and services.

URL to AWS Calculator: https://calculator.aws/#/

To get started, visit the website and click on the “Created estimate” button and then we can start adding services.

create estimate page

My Estimate page: Dashboard

my estimate page

This is the dashboard page to our selected AWS services. Here, we can see our monthly cost and total yearly cost. We also have different options at the top right that are:

  • Add services
  • Add support
  • Add group
  • Export estimates
  • Share

1. Adding services

In the add service section, we can add our desired services and calculate the costs.

adding service page

Lets take an example, if we want to add AWS S3 service then simply search for S3 and after clicking on configure we will be configuring our S3 service.

  • Region: While selecting the region, we would like to select the region to our closest use case. (E.g: if our target market is in the US then, we can choose either Ohio, N.Virginia, N California or Oregon as our region.)

    Note: Price may change depending on the region.

region page

  • Next is selecting S3 Storage classes and other features. Here we have different options like:

    • S3 Standard
    • S3 Intelligent - Tiering
    • S3 Standard - Infrequent Access
    • S3 One Zone - Infrequent Access
    • S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
    • S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
    • S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
    • S3 Management and Analytics
    • S3 Object Lambda
    • Data Transfer

s3 select page

Lets choose S3 Standard and Data Transfer options in this example. Then we need to configure S3 Standard and Data transfer.

Here we give our estimated storage size, number of requests etc.

s3 standard page

s3 data transfer page

At the end we can view our Total monthly cost for Data Transfer estimate and S3 Standard estimate.

After we click on “add to my estimate”. We can now see our S3 service in My Estimate dashboard.

my estimate 2 page

We can add more services just by clicking on the “add service” button.

2. Adding Support

In the support page, we would want to add configurations as to how we want to get support by AWS Team.

support page

3. Adding Group

In the group setting, we only need to provide a name and click on thes “add group” button.

group-1 page

In our estimate page or dashboard, we can see that a group is created under the name provided. We can add more services under the new group.

group-2 page

4. Clear Estimate

It is used to clear out all of our estimates and services.

5. Export Estimate

It is used to export our estimation in a .csv file format.

6. Share

The calculator will generate an obscure, but publicly accessible URL. Anyone with the public share link will be able to access your estimate. After the public link is generated, if we add or delete services from our estimation, that will not be reflected on the link. In order to reflect the changes, we need to generate new links.

  1. Contributors: Ujan Man Shakya ↩