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Cloud Cost Calculator
- snewman 13y agoThere are plenty of pricing cheat sheets out there, but we couldn't find a tool that would let us compare cloud providers while taking one-year or three-year EC2 reservations into account, or answer questions like "who has the best price per GB of RAM", so we built this. We'd love feedback -- what can we do to make this more useful? For more discussion and some interesting results, check out http://blog.scalyr.com/2013/11/11/cloud-cost-calculator/ http://blog.scalyr.com/2013/11/11/cloud-cost-calculator/.
- voltagex_ 13y agoPart of the template is showing - {{choiceCount}} server combinations Edit: https://github.com/scalyr/cloud-costs/issues/1 https://github.com/scalyr/cloud-costs/issues/1
- snewman 13y agoI think this was a side effect of the server glitch (see below) -- some of the JavaScript dependencies weren't served.
- jbigelow76 13y agoWhy didn't you include Azure in the comparison?
- snewman 13y agoWe'd love to see more providers included, with Azure near the top of the list. If you'd like to contribute, all we need is a static data file -- see https://github.com/scalyr/cloud-costs https://github.com/scalyr/cloud-costs. Or see https://github.com/scalyr/cloud-costs/blob/master/linode.js https://github.com/scalyr/cloud-costs/blob/master/linode.js for an example.
- potomushto 13y agoJust made it https://github.com/scalyr/cloud-costs/pull/6 https://github.com/scalyr/cloud-costs/pull/6
- pella 13y ago>"who has the best price per GB of RAM" ? http://serverbear.com/ http://serverbear.com/ http://serverbear.com/compare?Sort=RAM&Order=desc&Monthly+Cost=-&HDD=-&HDD+Type=&RAM=-&BearScore=-&UnixBench=-&I%2FO+Benchmark=-&IOPS+Seek+Benchmark=-&Bandwidth+Benchmark=-&Country=&Virtualization= http://serverbear.com/compare?Sort=RAM&Order=desc&Monthly+Co...
- chaud 13y agoSadly serverbear is abysmally slow every time I go to use it. It would be a great tool otherwise.
- samstave 13y agoSERVER BUSY
- trailfox 13y agoThe tool doesn't include any of the c3 and i2 instance types yet.
- snewman 13y agoHave you seen pricing for the i2 instances? Amazon doesn't seem to have posted it yet. I'll look into getting the c3 instances added.
- okrasz 13y agoTry http://www.cloudorado.com http://www.cloudorado.com - it takes one and tree year reservations if you choose longer subscription durations (expandable panel).
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- joshsegall 13y agoLinode gives you 8 cores even at the low tier. Granted it's at lower priority but in practice I get way more than 1 core's worth of CPU.
- makeshifthoop 13y agoThe cr1.8xlarge Amazon 3 year heavy utilization should be 660/month with the upfront cost amortized over 36 months.
- snewman 13y agoYes, that's the figure you'll get if you set the interest rate to 0 in the "Amortization period" section (and set the time period to 36 months). By default, we assume a 10% cost-of-capital, which leads to the $706/month figure you see otherwise for cr1.8xlarge over 36 months. The difference reflects the fact that, all other things being equal, paying a lump sum up front is generally less desirable than month-to-month payments. You can adjust the interest rate parameter according to your situation.
- craigyk 13y agoOK, I read through the blogpost to read up on what "cores" mean. Is running a quick benchmark on each instance a possibility? Even something relatively simple and fast like geekbench. Also, if possible, test inter-instance interconnect performance with some kind of MPI benchmark? I would be willing to chip in to pay to collect this data.
- snewman 13y agoWe would love to collect data like this. It would be especially interesting to measure the variability of network performance over time. (We did some measurements of I/O performance over time a while back -- http://blog.scalyr.com/2012/10/16/a-systematic-look-at-ec2-io/. http://blog.scalyr.com/2012/10/16/a-systematic-look-at-ec2-i...) I don't know exactly what form this effort might take, but if you're interested in discussing further, drop me a line -- steve@ our domain.
- kbar13 13y agoLinode's "cores" is greatly misrepresented. I'm sure the AWS/GCE/DO core counts are equally misrepresented.
- snewman 13y agoYes, comparing "cores" across providers is an extremely sketchy proposition. Obviously not all CPU cores are created equal, the motherboard and RAM configuration has an impact, etc. Worse, there are a variety of different models out there - reserved cores, CPU prioritization, bursting, etc. -- which can't be summarized in a single number. Not to mention that performance may not be consistent over time or from machine to machine, and on at least some providers, supposedly-equivalent instances may be running on different hardware with different performance. We're open to suggestions here. For now, we've noted this caveat in the blog post and in a couple of places on the page, and we deliberately didn't include any sample queries that sort by cores.
- sdfjkl 13y agoNice idea, but needs more content. There is not a single non-US company in that list (which should be a filter, because NSA).
- snewman 13y agoWe'd love to get more providers - would you be interested in adding some? Instructions are linked from the upper-right corner of the page.
- gsharma 13y agoScalyr folks - Please make the header of the table fixed.
- akh 13y agothere's a few of these, http://www.planforcloud.com http://www.planforcloud.com, awsnow.info, https://cloudvertical.com/cloud-costs#cloud_costs/index https://cloudvertical.com/cloud-costs#cloud_costs/index
- TallboyOne 13y agoIt seems insane to me the header of the table doesn't 'stick' to the window as you scroll. nice though
- welder 13y agoDigitalOcean is the cheapest on the list. Has anyone used it who could provide some feedback on network throughput, ease of use, etc?
- dhritzkiv 13y agoI don't have any data on network throughput or any other performance points, but in terms of ease-of-use, it's incredibly straightforward to create and manage your "droplets" (their name for instances). Lots of up-to-date community articles and guides. Definitely recommended for a beginner.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoNetwork throughput is pretty quick. Used a droplet to grab something off bittorrent (no, not copyrighted content; just can't use bittorrent at the office). Pulling down from the droplet was at a full 100Mb/s to our office.
- grosskur 13y agoEC2 spot instances can provide significant cost savings if your app can cope with them getting killed unexpectedly. To help decide what to bid, I made a small app that continuously collects and graphs historical spot prices: http://ec2price.com/ http://ec2price.com/
- martypitt 13y agoPerhaps I'm misreading this, but the pricing for Digital Ocean seems wrong. For example, the "Cheapest servers with at least 16GB of RAM" lists a Digital Ocean 16GB server, 8 cores for $7.247/mth. Looking on their site, I see that this would cost $160/mth. Am I missing something?
- snewman 13y agoYou clicked on a link in the "one hour/day" section. If you use the server for one hour each day for a month, on Digital Ocean it will run you $7.247. In the Presets panel, there are other sections showing rates for 24 hours/day for three years, or 8 hours/day for three years. And of course you can put together any combination you like by editing the form. We did struggle with how to present all these options clearly without creating a gigantic form. Suggestions welcomed!
- martypitt 13y agoThanks for the clarification.
- sheetjs 13y agoIs there some excel spreadsheet or google doc with all of this information?
- rpedela 13y agoI believe you have the wrong disk size for AWS cc2.8xlarge. It says 1.65 TB but according to AWS it is 3.28 TB. I am assuming the disk corresponds to instance storage not EBS. It also seems strange that disk GB per $ seem to go down as you go from 1 year light to 1 year heavy on AWS. Shouldn't it be the opposite? Awesome calculator BTW! I really needed something like this.
- snewman 13y agoGood catch on the cc2.8xlarge disk -- thanks! As for the GB/$: by default we display prices assuming you'll use the server 24 hours a day for one month. That means that if you take a reservation, you'll be reselling it a month later. It turns out that a 1-year light reservation is best here (assuming you can resell for the full pro-rated value): with a heavy reservation Amazon's 10% cut on the resale is too expensive, whereas with no reservation the hourly rate kills you.
- cbsmith 13y agoWhat, no Joyent?
- bpizzi 13y agoGreat stuff you brought here, thanks for that. Did you think about giving some clues on dedicated servers as well? Looks to me that "cloud" offers may be convenient for a lot of use cases, but nothing can still beat the power/price ratio of a good old dedicated hw.