PRICING

· Three fundamental drivers of cost

o Compute

o Storage

o Outbound data transfer

· AWS offers Pay as you go for pricing

· For certain services (EC2, RDS)can pay for reserved capacity

o All upfront

o Partial upfront

o none upfront

· Volume based discounts for services like S3

· Free tier for new accounts

· Can estimate monthly bill using AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

· AWS TCO Calculator

o compare cost of on premise vs AWS

o matches current infrastructure to AWS offerings