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Infrastructure Sizing

Cloud & AWS Architecture Cost Estimator

Model realistic monthly infrastructure budgets across Compute, RDS Databases, Redis Caches, S3 Storage, and Egress Bandwidth. Compare On-Demand vs 1-Year / 3-Year Savings Plans.

Stack Presets:
1. COMPUTE (EC2 / CONTAINERS)
2. DATABASE (RDS POSTGRESQL / MYSQL)
3. CACHE & OBJECT STORAGE
4. NETWORK EGRESS BANDWIDTH
ESTIMATED ARCHITECTURE BUDGET
$ 533.41 / mo
$6400.92 / year
🎉 Saving $1831.92/yr with Savings Plans
Compute (EC2 / Nodes) $129.06
Database (RDS + Storage) $216.72
Cache (ElastiCache Redis) $49.64
Object Storage (S3) $14.49
Bandwidth (Data Egress) $123.50

4 High-Impact Rules to Reduce AWS Cloud Costs by 40%

1. Migrate from x86 to AWS Graviton (Arm)

AWS Graviton3 instances (t4g, c6g, m6g, r6g) deliver up to 20% lower cost and 40% higher price-performance over equivalent x86 instances. Most Node.js, Go, Python, and Java workloads run on Arm with zero code changes.

2. Commit to 1-Year Compute Savings Plans

Running instances On-Demand is standard for testing, but production services running 24/7 should leverage 1-Year Compute Savings Plans which instantly discount hourly rates by 30% to 35% with no upfront payment required.

3. Route Static Assets Through CloudFront CDN

Direct EC2/S3 internet egress is priced at $0.09/GB. Routing assets and media through AWS CloudFront drops edge data transfer costs down to ~$0.065/GB while providing edge caching and sub-10ms latency globally.

4. Enable S3 Intelligent-Tiering & Lifecycle Policies

Old database backups, logs, and user uploads sitting in S3 Standard cost $0.023/GB. Automatically transitioning files older than 30 days to S3 Glacier Deep Archive drops storage costs to $0.00099/GB (a 95% reduction).