November 23, 2012 at 20:41AWS TCO Calculator
Hello! 
I will decipher the headline: TCO - Total Cost of Ownership - this is the total cost of ownership. Read more on the wiki.
More recently, a very convenient calculator has appeared, which offhand gives an idea of what will be the difference in hosting infrastructure between AWS and its own servers.
Having entered the calculator interface , we select the following criteria:
Very interesting graphs of load models are offered to us:
In general, the assessment of the cost of hosting on AWS and in your own data centers depends on your settings.
Having made a test data entry, I got this result: Here,
as you know, these numbers are absolutely not specific and the data can vary very much. This calculator is intended for top managers, for the most part as a window dressing. But at the same time, these estimates make it clear how many times you can pay less if you correctly use the resources of cloud providers.
I suggest watching this video about the calculator:
I will decipher the headline: TCO - Total Cost of Ownership - this is the total cost of ownership. Read more on the wiki.
More recently, a very convenient calculator has appeared, which offhand gives an idea of what will be the difference in hosting infrastructure between AWS and its own servers.
Having entered the calculator interface , we select the following criteria:
- number of application servers
- number of database servers
- storage volume
- placement plan (1 or 2 DC for fault tolerance)
- annual growth in%
- administration costs of hosting cost
- load model
- geographic location
Very interesting graphs of load models are offered to us:
In general, the assessment of the cost of hosting on AWS and in your own data centers depends on your settings.
Having made a test data entry, I got this result: Here,
as you know, these numbers are absolutely not specific and the data can vary very much. This calculator is intended for top managers, for the most part as a window dressing. But at the same time, these estimates make it clear how many times you can pay less if you correctly use the resources of cloud providers.
I suggest watching this video about the calculator: