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John Fonseka
John Fonseka

Reputation: 795

huge AWS RDS Data Transfer cost

I am using AWS RDS to host one of my client's MySQL database. His web server is hosted in a separate hosting company (TurnKey). This site has some 14,000+ unique visitors and ~270,000 requests per day. This is a WordPress driven site.

The question is Even though I am paying only 52 USD for RDS service I am getting some 150 $ bill for data transfer(For about 1560+GB per month). I understand that data transfer outside AWS is costly. I want to know if I host the web site in AWS in the same region (in a m4 or in a ec2), will it reduce the data transfer costs? Or is there any other option I can consider?

Billing Summery

Data Transfer
    US East (Northern Virginia) Region  - $141.39

RDS Service
    US East (Northern Virginia) Region  - $52.83

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1769

Answers (1)

gview
gview

Reputation: 15361

Yes you will not be charged this huge data transfer fee if you host your site on AWS because local AWS network traffic doesn't cost you anything. It should also be a lot faster.

Upvotes: 1

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