2020-01-12T12:02:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EC2?

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Sushrit Moundekar - PeerSpot reviewer
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2024-01-19T08:02:25Z
Jan 19, 2024

The solution has different pricing models, and its cost differs when you purchase it for one year or three years.

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Matt Hardy - PeerSpot reviewer
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Top 5Leaderboard
2023-12-04T11:07:20Z
Dec 4, 2023

There is no cost involved for EC2, but sometimes you need to pay for products you run within it. You need to pay additional costs If you're using a lot of outbound Bandwidth. It is difficult to predict the cost, so I suggest setting up account budgets and notifications if you exceed your budget.

MU
Real User
Top 5
2023-08-23T11:17:49Z
Aug 23, 2023

We need to pay a monthly license fee for the product. The pricing also depends on the type of instance we use. Reserved Instances are dedicated to a single user and cost more. If we use Spot Instances, we must pay for what we use. It will be added to our monthly bill. It is not an expensive solution.

Alex Kabugo - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-08-21T20:26:28Z
Aug 21, 2023

I find the cost to be reasonable. It's fair.

MR
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2023-05-12T18:46:00Z
May 12, 2023

Amazon EC2 is a very expensive solution.

KH
Real User
Top 5
2023-05-12T09:35:00Z
May 12, 2023

Amazon EC2 is a pay-as-you-go service.

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Praneeth N - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-04-07T11:36:26Z
Apr 7, 2023

The price of Amazon EC2 could improve. The Google Cloud Platform is more cost-effective. We pay for Amazon EC2 monthly.

SP
Real User
Top 20
2023-03-17T11:52:22Z
Mar 17, 2023

Reducing the price of the solution could lead to an improvement.

AB
Real User
Top 20
2023-02-13T20:14:00Z
Feb 13, 2023

It's expensive, and it could be cheaper.

Liu, Scott Wen - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
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2023-01-27T10:58:13Z
Jan 27, 2023

The pricing of this solution is variable. There is an open-source variant that is accessible via the public cloud, and then tiers that range in price depending on the level and amount of usage that is required.

KN
Real User
Top 5
2022-12-19T13:47:00Z
Dec 19, 2022

We'd like the solution to be cheaper. We pay a monthly fee for licensing. I'd rate the pricing five out of ten.

HC
Real User
Top 10
2022-11-25T06:36:18Z
Nov 25, 2022

EC2 is a little expensive.

BenNnatuanya - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-11-11T13:38:02Z
Nov 11, 2022

I use the free tier, although I have paid for some services that are not free. The overall cost of this solution depends on the services you use.

Syamsunder Kurup - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-11-03T12:32:29Z
Nov 3, 2022

The cost is moderate. It's not too high or too low. It's based on usage. While using AWS cloud ensures there are no hidden costs, if you use other clouds, there might be.

Prapoj Chipat - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-10-01T06:45:07Z
Oct 1, 2022

The license fee for Amazon EC2 is higher than its competitors.

Mohammad Yasin - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-08-29T11:01:25Z
Aug 29, 2022

I am using the tier three Amazon service. I am not going to use another solution other than Amazon EC2 because here in Pakistan there are some payment issues for solutions abroad.

Kai Boon Giam - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2022-07-18T12:54:23Z
Jul 18, 2022

The cost of the product is reasonable. It’s not overly expensive.

Juan Mitchell - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-07-15T18:50:00Z
Jul 15, 2022

The cost varies depending on how many instances you have and how long you run it. Our most recent customers were running around four instances, and their bill was between $1,500 to $2,000.

NE
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-05-29T13:12:16Z
May 29, 2022

Licensing costs are paid monthly for the whole package. That includes the resources that the server is utilizing, plus the operating system along with any database license, such as Microsoft SQL, that you are using. It's quite expensive.

Anteneh Asnake - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-05-06T01:00:00Z
May 6, 2022

This is not an expensive solution.

Naresh Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-04-07T12:18:50Z
Apr 7, 2022

There is a license required to use this solution and we pay on a monthly basis.

VA
Real User
2022-02-14T13:06:00Z
Feb 14, 2022

We have a monthly primary account that pays for the licensing, with multiple accounts below it. So whenever we want to have a new solution, we create a new account under the paying account.

SR
Real User
2021-11-08T18:48:00Z
Nov 8, 2021

If we already have the script and everything available, the deployment takes no more than half an hour. We already have the templates, but the template development, the scripts, all the tools development will take some time, maybe a month or so depending on the use case. But, once you have them set up, it's basically a matter of 15 minutes to half an hour. There were no annual or monthly licensing costs as it's completely based on usage. Depending on how many hours of use, the instance we run, and the storage we use, you get a very detailed account of usage in your billing document.

OU
Real User
2020-10-27T02:10:00Z
Oct 27, 2020

I think Amazon EC2 has fair pricing. I actually think the pricing is manageable. I have Free Tiers, as well. You can get on the Free Tier pricing and they just charge you for data storage.

VP
Real User
2020-09-27T04:10:19Z
Sep 27, 2020

The pricing is fine. It's not too expensive. That said, if you don't have the right model in place, then the cost factor could be one thing that people need to think about because it's based on usage. For example, how long the server is up and running will contribute to the cost. The model needs to be very concrete and work on how we want to use it. Based on that, if these factors are not known and if you don't take care of this, then the cost factor might go up as so it'll only take that one week to take care of any issues. We've never faced such a scenario because we are very clear on how we want to use it every time.

VinayKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2020-08-30T08:33:44Z
Aug 30, 2020

The costs are quite high. For our usage, the cost is approximately $20,000 to $23,000 per month.

RR
Real User
2020-01-12T12:02:00Z
Jan 12, 2020

We're charged depending on the run time, but there are other costs as well, including costs for transactions and storage.

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