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Pricing Model
AWS offers flexible pricing: pay-as-you-go (on-demand), Savings Plans (commitment-based), tiered pricing (volume discounts), and private pricing (enterprise commitments). This flexibility is powerful but requires careful management to avoid overspending.
On-Demand & Savings Plans
On-Demand examples: EC2 from ~$0.005/hr (t4g.nano), EKS $0.10/hr per cluster ($73/mo), Lambda $0.20/1M requests + $0.0000166667/GB-second, S3 $0.023/GB/month. Compute Savings Plans: 1/3-year commitment, applies to EC2 + Fargate + Lambda. Save up to 66%. EC2 Instance Savings Plans: Specific instance family per region. Save up to 72%. Reserved Instances (Standard): Save up to 75% with 1/3-year, upfront configuration.
Free Tier & Volume Discounts
12-month free: 750h/mo EC2 (t2.micro), 5GB S3, 750h/mo RDS, 25GB DynamoDB, 1M Lambda requests/mo. Always free: 1M Lambda/mo, 10GB DynamoDB, 25GB CloudWatch Logs. Tiered pricing: S3 decreases per-GB cost at higher volumes. Data transfer OUT first GB free, then $0.09/GB up to 10TB. Data transfer IN is always free. Cost management: AWS Pricing Calculator, Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, consolidated billing via Organizations.
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