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I love diagrams and pay for CloudCraft so I’m no stranger to the value of good diagram tools.

But I looked at that cloud formation design and immediately thought “crap that’s probably going to cost way too much to run”. Anyone got a good up to date cloud formation to dollars per month tool and want to estimate it? (I’m on a mobile at the moment)

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The only service that appears to cost a flat fee is 'Amazon Neptune', which on the cheapest plan costs ~10 cents an hour or ~$70/month. I imagine all the other costs (e.g. S3, Fargate, API Gateway, CloudFront) are negligible in comparison.

It's $500+ per month. https://twitter.com/der_rehan/status/1308242717307174912

The ElasticSearch cluster is a fixed cost also.

Elasticsearch Service (managed clusters) has a variable price depending on node type/count and storage size. Also, you pay for network traffic.

It’s “fixed” once you provision it. The other services like Lambda, APIGW, CodeBuild etc. vary according to usage.

ES network traffic wouldn’t cost if you are only retrieving traffic in the same region.

Hi,

You can find an estimated cost breakdown here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/aws-perspective...

(Disclosure: My team developed this project)

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