Estimating total cost of ownership
The AWS TCO Calculator is designed to provide you with a ballpark view of how much it will cost you to run equivalent infrastructure on AWS in comparison to your co-located or on-premise data center.
The calculator has been audited by an independent third-party, but you should of course check its output against your own calculations before you make any purchasing decisions.
Getting ready
In this example, we're going to describe a typical three tier Rails image processing application running with a modest amount of hardware. You can use our example configuration or follow along with your own hardware requirements.
How to do it...
- Navigate to https://awstcocalculator.com/.
- Choose your currency, location, AWS region, and workload type. In our case we're going to choose the following:
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TCO Calculator—workload
- Now we need to describe our server requirements. We're going to specify that our app is running on physical...
