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Will Hunt
Will Hunt

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Amazon ec2 price calculations per visit

Im trying to build a financial model to run some projections for a web project. I am wanting to use Amazon ec2 but I dont know how to figure out the cost for traffic levels (i.e. visitors, length of visit etc) with instance rates.

Can someone help me with the calculations.

For example, if I have 1000 visits to the site for 3 minutes each, how many instances will that use. what about 10000, 100000 and so on?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Answers (1)

cordsen
cordsen

Reputation: 1701

EC2 instances are priced based on the number of hours the instance is ON, regardless of CPU. Think of it like buying a dedicated machine for X hours, not like buying CPU cycles.

The variance in the cost is bandwidth consumed, so you would have to figure out how much bandwidth the 1000 users will consume for those 3 minutes.

Amazon has a calculator to help you figure out your costs http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

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