[Systems] EC2 cost estimates

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Caroline Meeks wrote:

> Did Amazon say no to donating the service?

Actually, it was Red Hat who was considering donating the service -- but 
we're still working out details.  :)

--g

> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>       Amazon just lowered all prices, do I did some some cost
>       estimates for
>       the hypothesis of running the bulk of Sugar Labs' public-facing
>       and
>       development infrastructure on EC2.
>
>       In 9 days, the machine running http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
>       along
>       with a bunch of other low-traffic services received 85.8GB and
>       sent
>       103.3GB of data, for a total of 189GB transferred.
>
>       In one year, this would become 189/9*365 = 7665GB (7.6TB).
>
>       However, these statistics were collected in a period of
>       extraordinarily
>       low traffic, because schools are closed in Latin America:
> 
>  http://sunjammer.sugarlabs.org/munin/sugarlabs.org/sunjammer.sugarlabs.org
>       -apache_accesses.html
>
>       Within two weeks, traffic will return from 150 to 800-1000
>       connections
>       per minute, a factor 6. Our traffic includes a number of things,
>       such as
>       backups, which won't grow as much. But we're also expecting the
>       popularity of aslo to increase over the next year, so I'd keep
>       the 6x
>       factor:
>
>        76665GB * 6 = 45990GB (46TB per year)
>
>       We're well within the 10TB per month range. So we can expect to
>       spend:
>
>        45990 * 0.15 = $6898.50
>
>       This is just for bandwidth. Amazon also charges for instance
>       hours
>       (circa $2000 per year per instance), disk space and IP
>       addresses. This
>       is the whole story:
>
>        http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
>
>       Depending how fast one instance really is, I'd guesstimate that
>       running
>       a good chunk of Sugar Labs' development and public-facing
>       infrastructure
>       on EC2 instances would cost some $10-15K per year. Moving
>       everything to
>       the cloud would likely cost over $20K per year at current rates.
>
>       --
>         // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>        \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
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