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Question 1: is it possible to run AWS / Google cloud with a fixed pre-paid monthly rate? Like e.g. "give me the most webservers for 1000$ / Month plus a Databas

Question 1: is it possible to run AWS / Google cloud with a fixed pre-paid monthly rate? Like e.g. "give me the most webservers for 1000$ / Month plus a Database". Question 2: does exist some kind of optimization-per-usecase service for such a fixed cost scenario? E.g. "Optimize for Website" or "Optimize for Database" and you can download a Terraform file?

kumarvvr 4y ago
AWS has provisioned versions of many services, which cost less upfront, but are longer term contracts.
jamesfinlayson 4y ago
Not that I know of for either (at least for AWS). AWS lets you provision some service though (I think DynamoDB has three different ways to be provisioned now) but it's not per use-case, it's based on what you think your needs are.
weberer 4y ago
1. Yes, its called reserved pricing. You have to enter a 1 year contract. Here's an example for EC2, which is Amazon's VPS offering. I assume other companies have similar systems https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin... 2. You can chose which type of machine you want to reserve as your servers. Some of them are optimized for memory (good for databases). Some for CPU, etc https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
Dave3of5 4y ago
All pricing in AWS is usage based and you'll find it's your usage that is variable. An example of this is s3 storage. You tend to find your storage cost will increase over time as you put more stuff into s3. S3 also charges per api call so you'd have to somehow fix that. You have egress fess also which you're not in control of so variable customers usage will net a variable cost. In terms of reserving compute power (a popular answer) you can also achieve fixed price with on demand if you don't auto scale. So reserving here doesn't remove that variability. Reserving just make it cheap if you have constant use. So you can reserve you DB server as it's always on and you'll save over on demand. Many of the small cloud providers offer much less variability for their services with things like fixed networking cost. I tend to use those as I want a fairly fixed bill. The only thing that's variable on my cloud bill is backup storage and GBP to EUR exchange rate. The backup fee's are < 5% of the total cost at the moment.
eb0la 4y ago
In Spain Google offers a fixed-price for the goverment. It is very hard for the goverment to by stuff from the cloud since they must have a fixed budget for it, no surprised attached.
- POPOSYS 4y ago
  Thanks for that info - very interesting!

kumarvvr 4y ago

AWS has provisioned versions of many services, which cost less upfront, but are longer term contracts.

jamesfinlayson 4y ago

Not that I know of for either (at least for AWS). AWS lets you provision some service though (I think DynamoDB has three different ways to be provisioned now) but it's not per use-case, it's based on what you think your needs are.

weberer 4y ago

1. Yes, its called reserved pricing. You have to enter a 1 year contract. Here's an example for EC2, which is Amazon's VPS offering. I assume other companies have similar systems https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin... 2. You can chose which type of machine you want to reserve as your servers. Some of them are optimized for memory (good for databases). Some for CPU, etc https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

Dave3of5 4y ago

All pricing in AWS is usage based and you'll find it's your usage that is variable. An example of this is s3 storage. You tend to find your storage cost will increase over time as you put more stuff into s3. S3 also charges per api call so you'd have to somehow fix that. You have egress fess also which you're not in control of so variable customers usage will net a variable cost. In terms of reserving compute power (a popular answer) you can also achieve fixed price with on demand if you don't auto scale. So reserving here doesn't remove that variability. Reserving just make it cheap if you have constant use. So you can reserve you DB server as it's always on and you'll save over on demand. Many of the small cloud providers offer much less variability for their services with things like fixed networking cost. I tend to use those as I want a fairly fixed bill. The only thing that's variable on my cloud bill is backup storage and GBP to EUR exchange rate. The backup fee's are < 5% of the total cost at the moment.

eb0la 4y ago

In Spain Google offers a fixed-price for the goverment. It is very hard for the goverment to by stuff from the cloud since they must have a fixed budget for it, no surprised attached.

POPOSYS 4y ago
Thanks for that info - very interesting!