You can run LiveBeats on the smallest instances. You end up needing 2 small VMs and 2 10GB disks per region. So it costs about $6.80 per region to get started.

You can run LiveBeats on the smallest instances. You end up needing 2 small VMs and 2 10GB disks per region. So it costs about $6.80 per region to get started. ~$150/mo to run in all our regions with the small VMs. Most apps only need 3-6 regions to get really great performance. The interesting thing about adding regions is that it also scales capacity horizontally. The way we route traffic means we can max out a region then spillover to the next one. And the way LiveBeats uses disks, each new region adds 10GB of song storage too. Chris gets this stuff for free so he put way bigger CPUs and disks on the databases than they really need. ---Edit--- I did that wrong. It's ~$6.80 per region. Not ~$13.60 per region.