Evaluating Costs

Understanding and evaluating costs for your applications is an important aspect of migrating workloads to the cloud, and AWS provides numerous tools as well as services that customers can use to forecast and evaluate the runtime costs of resources. This section discusses three such commonly used tools, starting with AWS Pricing Calculator.

AWS Pricing Calculator

AWS Pricing Calculator is a simple web-based tool that allows you to easily calculate and estimate the runtime costs of your AWS resources. The tool is exceptionally useful when it comes to planning and estimating resources during a migration activity, as well as when it comes to building a new application on AWS.

The tool provides mechanisms with which customers can create numerous estimates depending on their workloads, group them as per their requirements, and share them across their organizations as well.

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At the time of writing, AWS Pricing Calculator supports around 150 AWS services...