Is there any way to make a cost comparison of the application that you have hosted on-premises and the application that's hosted in your AWS environment?
The answer is yes! Follow these steps to find out how:
- Go to https://aws.amazon.com/tco-calculator/ and click on Launch the TCO Calculator. Alternatively, you can go to https://awstcocalculator.com/:
Let's see what the cost comparison is for three web servers with four cores and 8 GB memory and 1 TB storage:
- Click on Calculate TCO.
- Here, you will be provided with a 3-year cost breakdown:
- Scroll down to Environment details to get more details on the comparison of cost calculation:
- In the Cost Breakdown section, you will get on-premise and AWS cost breakdowns for servers or instances and storage in charts:
In the next section, we will discuss a sample architecture, including its compute and networking services, in brief.