Chapter 3. Calculating Cost with the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

This chapter aims to teach you how to calculate the total cost of storing data and delivering objects through S3 with the Amazon Web Services Simple Monthly Calculator (the AWS calculator). For example, assuming how much it costs when simply delivering your media files such as images, streaming files through S3, or hosting a static website on a bucket in a month. You'll also learn how to record and manage AWS costs.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • To calculate and estimate S3 costs with the AWS calculator
  • To annotate S3 billing by adding cost allocation tagging

Introduction

The AWS calculator is a web simulation tool to calculate AWS services. Anyone, even those who have not registered ...

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