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May I know a rough cost percentage of ec2 and bandwidth on your billing? I'm thinking of using Google cloud compute + AWS cloudfront, to benefit from cheaper Go

by Elect2 10y ago

May I know a rough cost percentage of ec2 and bandwidth on your billing? I'm thinking of using Google cloud compute + AWS cloudfront, to benefit from cheaper Google vCPUs. But that will almost double the bandwidth cost. I'm considering is it worth to do so. For US bank account, you can try Payoneer, a virtual card company. You can get a US bank account by using their "Global payment service". I have successfully enable my RI selling by adding a US bank account provided by Payoneer.

cyberferret 10y ago
Thanks for the tip - I will investigate it. EC2 costs are by far the biggest cost in our monthly billing. Easily running up to 80% of the total monthly costs. The rest is split fairly equally between RDS, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Route53, S3, Glacier etc. Bandwidth itself is a pretty tiny proportion. But then again, we don't do things like transport big files around to/from clients etc. Most of our web apps are purely screen and transactional information. The biggest cost saving to us in the past few years was moving from on demand instance pricing to reserved instance pricing. Easily knocked our monthly bill down by more than half. The tricky thing about reserved instances though (at least up to now), was trying to predict what sort of capacity you would need for the next 12 months or so. We did inadvertently spend too much sometimes on 'wrong' sized reserved instances, and basically threw money away because we ended up paying out months on instances that we could not immediately use. Once we get better at crystal ball gazing, we will probably move to 36 month advance purchase of instances to save even more money. Oh - one thing that tricked us too - it is not readily apparent on the Amazon Console Reserve Instance purchase screen which instance types work within a VPC and which don't. We ended up reserving a few instance types that we eventually found out we could not use within our defined VPC, which was a shame, though not a deal killer as we could use their "ClassicLink" feature to work around it. Just a tip for any Amazon team member who may be reading.
- Elect2 10y ago
  Just now I noticed that Amazon send payment via wire transfer (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-instances/marketplace/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta...), but Payoneer bank account only accept checking. :( If you spent so much on ec2, it really worth to take a look at Google cloud compute 3-years term. In high-cpu set the vCPU is cheaper(less than $12 per vcpu), and there is no upfront fee. What stopped me the most from AWS 3-years RI is the huge upfront fee.

by Elect2 10y ago

cyberferret 10y ago

Thanks for the tip - I will investigate it. EC2 costs are by far the biggest cost in our monthly billing. Easily running up to 80% of the total monthly costs. The rest is split fairly equally between RDS, CloudFront, DynamoDB, Route53, S3, Glacier etc. Bandwidth itself is a pretty tiny proportion. But then again, we don't do things like transport big files around to/from clients etc. Most of our web apps are purely screen and transactional information. The biggest cost saving to us in the past few years was moving from on demand instance pricing to reserved instance pricing. Easily knocked our monthly bill down by more than half. The tricky thing about reserved instances though (at least up to now), was trying to predict what sort of capacity you would need for the next 12 months or so. We did inadvertently spend too much sometimes on 'wrong' sized reserved instances, and basically threw money away because we ended up paying out months on instances that we could not immediately use. Once we get better at crystal ball gazing, we will probably move to 36 month advance purchase of instances to save even more money. Oh - one thing that tricked us too - it is not readily apparent on the Amazon Console Reserve Instance purchase screen which instance types work within a VPC and which don't. We ended up reserving a few instance types that we eventually found out we could not use within our defined VPC, which was a shame, though not a deal killer as we could use their "ClassicLink" feature to work around it. Just a tip for any Amazon team member who may be reading.

Elect2 10y ago
Just now I noticed that Amazon send payment via wire transfer (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-instances/marketplace/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta...), but Payoneer bank account only accept checking. :( If you spent so much on ec2, it really worth to take a look at Google cloud compute 3-years term. In high-cpu set the vCPU is cheaper(less than $12 per vcpu), and there is no upfront fee. What stopped me the most from AWS 3-years RI is the huge upfront fee.