AWS Cost Planning Estimator
Build a rough monthly planning estimate for a simplified AWS stack. Verify final architecture and pricing with AWS before making budget decisions.
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Adjust each resource to match your setup.
⚡ EC2 Instances
🗄️ Database (RDS)
📦 Storage & Bandwidth
🛡️ AWS Support Plan
Annual Projection
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What This Estimator Calculates
This is a simplified planning tool for a common small AWS stack, not a replacement for the official AWS Pricing Calculator. It adds up these monthly components using fixed reference rates:
- EC2 instances: a selected instance type multiplied by the instance count, with an optional flat reduction to approximate reserved pricing.
- EBS storage: gigabytes per instance multiplied by the instance count.
- RDS database: a selected database instance, doubled when Multi-AZ is chosen. The Aurora Serverless option is a fixed rough placeholder, not a usage-based calculation.
- S3 and backup storage: gigabytes stored at a single flat per-GB rate each.
- Data transfer out: gigabytes sent to the internet at one flat per-GB rate, plus optional CloudFront transfer.
- AWS Support: none, a simplified Developer amount, or a simplified Business amount based on a percentage with a minimum.
What It Does Not Calculate
The estimator does not model the following, so do not rely on it for them:
- Amazon DocumentDB, Redshift, Lightsail, Lambda, load balancers, or other services not listed above.
- Regional price differences, operating-system or licensing charges, Savings Plans, taxes, and free-tier or tiered transfer pricing.
- S3 storage classes, requests, and retrieval fees. See S3 storage classes explained for what drives those costs.
- Cross-Availability-Zone, cross-Region, or NAT gateway data processing.
For a service-by-service estimate, including data transfer between components, build the workload in the official AWS Pricing Calculator for your Region.
Turning an Estimate Into a Budget
Use the result as a starting range, then compare it with real usage. How much AWS costs for a small business explains what typically drives the total, and how to reduce your AWS monthly bill covers the changes worth making once you have a bill. If you already run on AWS and want the bill reviewed against actual usage, the AWS cost optimization service starts with a review of your account. Planning a move? One-time migration costs are not included here, and the AWS cloud migration service scopes them.