FinOps & Cost
AWS FinOps & Cost Calculators
Know the whole bill — and where 20–40% of it hides.
Roll up your entire AWS bill, model savings from commitments and right-sizing, and price every major service — from EC2 and RDS to the hidden data-transfer and NAT Gateway line items Cost Explorer buries. The FinOps toolkit for the people who own the bill.
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AWS Cloud Cost Calculator
Whole-bill estimate + composition
Roll up EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, data transfer, and NAT Gateway into one monthly and annual bill — and see which service drives your spend.
AWS Cost Savings Calculator
Estimated annual savings range
Enter monthly spend and workload mix for a personalized 20–40% savings estimate across EC2, RDS, S3, and networking.
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AWS Cost Waste Quiz
Personalized waste risk score
Five quick questions on cost reviews, right-sizing, and commitments — get a waste risk score and fix-it list.
Data Transfer Cost Calculator
Monthly data transfer breakdown
Model tiered internet egress, cross-AZ, and inter-region transfer — the hidden charges Cost Explorer buries under "EC2-Other."
NAT Gateway vs VPC Endpoint
Monthly savings + endpoint plan
Quantify savings from moving S3, DynamoDB, and AWS-service traffic off NAT Gateway onto free Gateway Endpoints and PrivateLink.
Graviton Savings Calculator
Estimated Graviton savings range
Size the savings from moving x86 compute to Graviton (Arm) — the ~20% price cut plus optional price-performance headroom, weighted by how much of your stack ports.
Savings Plans ROI Calculator
Savings Plan ROI comparison
Compare 1-year vs 3-year Compute Savings Plans against On-Demand EC2 and RDS — side-by-side ROI.
Reserved Instance Break-Even
RI break-even month + savings
Find the break-even month and annual savings for EC2 On-Demand vs 1- and 3-year Reserved Instances.
Bedrock Knowledge Base Calculator
KB cost + vector store comparison
Compare S3 Vectors vs OpenSearch Serverless retrieval costs — see the ~$350/mo OCU minimum before you commit to RAG.
Security Compliance Cost Calculator
Security stack monthly roll-up
Roll up GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, Macie, and Inspector into one monthly security tax — before audit season surprises finance.
Multi-AZ Cost Calculator
Monthly HA premium + drivers
Quantify the high-availability premium — RDS instance/storage doubling, per-AZ NAT Gateways, and cross-AZ replication — Single-AZ vs Multi-AZ.
Scaling Cost Explosion Simulator
Bill projection at multiple scale points
See your AWS bill at 2×, 5×, and 10× traffic — understand hypergrowth cost risk before it hits the P&L.
Unit Economics Calculator
Cost per customer & per request
Calculate cost per customer and cost per request — see if infrastructure is eating your SaaS margins.
Feature Cost Estimator
Per-feature cost at scale
Estimate AWS infra cost per product feature at 1×, 10×, and 100× scale — before you ship.
Free Tier Exhaustion Calculator
Free tier runway + first bill
See days until free tier runs out per service and estimate your first real AWS bill.
Commitment Level Optimizer
Recommended commitment percentage + monthly savings
Find the optimal Savings Plans coverage level from your demand shape and baseline rates.
IOPS Cost Calculator
Monthly IOPS spend breakdown
Estimate EBS gp3, io2, and RDS provisioned IOPS costs — find where the IOPS line item hides.
Batch Time-Shift Estimator
Recommended run window + incremental savings
Estimate additional Spot savings by moving deferrable jobs into lower-cost run windows.
EC2 Spot Instance Advisor
Weighted Spot instance ranking + savings
Rank Spot instances by price, stability, and interruption risk for your workload.
RDS Max Connection Calculator
Max connections + pool guidance
Look up default max_connections by RDS instance class with pool sizing guidance for Postgres and MySQL.
ECS Pricing Calculator
Monthly ECS-on-EC2 cost estimate
Estimate ECS EC2 launch-type monthly cost from cluster size, runtime, and utilization assumptions.
ElastiCache Pricing Calculator
Monthly cache cluster estimate
Model Redis/Valkey or Memcached node and replica runtime costs for your target cache topology.
Route 53 Pricing Calculator
Monthly DNS cost estimate
Estimate hosted zone, DNS query, and health-check costs for Route 53 portfolios.
SQS Pricing Calculator
Monthly queueing cost estimate
Forecast SQS Standard vs FIFO request charges with payload-size chunking effects.
EC2 Pricing Calculator
Monthly & annual EC2 bill
Compare On-Demand, Spot, and Reserved Instance costs by instance type and region in seconds.
S3 Pricing Calculator
Monthly S3 cost breakdown
Estimate storage, request, retrieval, and egress by storage class — see when API charges beat volume.
Fargate Pricing Calculator
Monthly Fargate task cost
Model Fargate vCPU and memory for x86 vs Graviton — with optional Compute Savings Plan discount.
RDS Pricing Calculator
Monthly RDS cost estimate
Compare Single-AZ vs Multi-AZ with instance, storage, and provisioned IOPS on one screen.
DynamoDB Pricing Calculator
DynamoDB mode comparison
See when On-Demand beats provisioned RCU/WCU for your read/write pattern — free tier included.
CloudFront Pricing Calculator
Monthly CDN cost estimate
Estimate data transfer and HTTP/HTTPS request charges by tier — egress vs request drivers.
NAT Gateway Pricing Calculator
Monthly NAT Gateway cost
Model hourly NAT charges, per-GB processing, and cross-AZ surcharges — the hidden networking line item.
Aurora Pricing Calculator
Monthly Aurora cost breakdown
Estimate provisioned instances or Serverless v2 ACUs with Standard vs I/O-Optimized Aurora storage.
EKS Pricing Calculator
Monthly EKS cluster cost
Model $0.10/cluster-hour control plane plus EC2 node groups or Fargate pod compute in one view.
API Gateway Pricing Calculator
Monthly API Gateway cost
Compare HTTP, REST, and WebSocket API request charges — plus optional REST cache hourly fees.
ELB Pricing Calculator
Monthly load balancer cost
Estimate ALB, NLB, GWLB, or Classic Load Balancer hourly and capacity unit charges without a spreadsheet.
CloudWatch Pricing Calculator
Monthly observability cost
Model log ingestion and storage, custom metrics, standard alarms, and Logs Insights scan charges.
EFS Pricing Calculator
Monthly EFS cost breakdown
Estimate Regional vs One Zone storage, IA access, and provisioned or elastic throughput for shared file workloads.
SNS Pricing Calculator
Monthly SNS cost breakdown
Estimate Standard and FIFO publish costs plus HTTP/S, email, SMS, and mobile push delivery in one view.
Lightsail Pricing Calculator
Monthly Lightsail cost breakdown
Model bundled VPS, database, and container plans plus data transfer overages and add-ons in one estimate.
AWS Backup Pricing Calculator
Monthly backup storage breakdown
Model warm and cold recovery point storage, cross-region copies, and per-service backup rates before vault lifecycle policies surprise finance.
EMR Pricing Calculator
Monthly EMR cost breakdown
Estimate EC2 cluster uplift, task-node Spot savings, or Serverless vCPU/GB-hours for Spark workloads.
FSx Pricing Calculator
Monthly FSx cost by engine
Compare Lustre, Windows File Server, ONTAP, and OpenZFS storage, throughput, and backup rates in one estimate.
Redshift Pricing Calculator
Monthly Redshift cost by mode
Compare Serverless RPU-hours vs Provisioned RA3 nodes with managed storage and Spectrum — before idle cluster hours inflate the bill.
EventBridge Pricing Calculator
Monthly EventBridge cost by dimension
Estimate custom events, Pipes, API Destinations, Schema Discovery, Archive storage, and Scheduler charges on one screen.
Step Functions Pricing Calculator
Standard vs Express monthly estimate
Compare Standard state-transition costs vs Express request and duration pricing for workflow orchestration.
MSK Pricing Calculator
Monthly MSK cost by cluster mode
Model provisioned Kafka broker-hours and storage or Serverless cluster, partition, and data transfer charges.
VPC Pricing Calculator
Monthly VPC-adjacent network cost
Model public IPv4, Interface VPC Endpoints, Transit Gateway, peering, and inter-AZ transfer — the attachments that bill while the VPC is free.
Athena Pricing Calculator
Monthly Athena query cost
Estimate on-demand TB scanned at $5/TB plus provisioned DPU-hours — before an unpartitioned S3 table runs in production.
Lambda Pricing Calculator
Monthly Lambda cost breakdown
Estimate request, GB-second, provisioned concurrency, and Graviton savings with free tier — standalone from the compare tool.
Glue Pricing Calculator
Monthly Glue cost by workload
Model ETL DPU-hours, crawler minimum charges, and Data Catalog overage before nightly job concurrency scales the bill.
Transit Gateway Pricing Calculator
Monthly TGW cost + peering comparison
Estimate TGW attachment hours and per-GB data processing — compare hub-and-spoke cost vs VPC peering before you commit.
Cognito Pricing Calculator
Monthly Cognito cost per MAU
Model Lite, Essentials, and Plus MAU tiers, SAML federation, and M2M token requests — auth cost in your unit economics.
CodeBuild Pricing Calculator
Monthly CodeBuild cost breakdown
Estimate build minutes, Graviton vs x86 savings, Lambda compute, and S3 cache storage before CI costs surprise finance.
Data Firehose Pricing Calculator
Monthly Firehose cost by destination
Model Firehose ingestion and delivery to S3 vs OpenSearch vs Redshift — see when routing logs to S3 beats CloudWatch.
CodePipeline Pricing Calculator
V1 vs V2 monthly pipeline cost
Compare CodePipeline V1 active-pipeline pricing against V2 action-minute billing before CI orchestration costs spike.
Systems Manager Pricing Calculator
Monthly SSM advanced-tier estimate
Model advanced Parameter Store, Automation, AppConfig, and managed-instance runtime before fleet-wide operations rollouts.
Direct Connect Pricing Calculator
Monthly hybrid connectivity estimate
Estimate dedicated or hosted port-hours, data transfer out, and SiteLink costs for hybrid network architecture.
Kendra Pricing Calculator
Monthly enterprise search cost estimate
Model Kendra Developer or Enterprise cost (existing customers). Kendra in maintenance for new signups after July 2026 — evaluate Quick Suite or Bedrock KBs.
Network Firewall Pricing Calculator
Monthly Network Firewall cost breakdown
Model per-AZ endpoint hours and traffic processing costs before stateful inspection spans multiple Availability Zones.
Transcribe Pricing Calculator
Monthly transcription cost estimate
Estimate Standard, Medical, and Call Analytics per-minute transcription costs with free tier and optional Toxicity Detection add-on.
Textract Pricing Calculator
Monthly document processing cost estimate
Estimate OCR, Forms, Tables, Queries, Expense, ID, and Lending per-page costs — see why Tables at $15/1K drives most document AI bills.
Amazon Q Pricing Calculator
Monthly Amazon Q cost by product and edition
Estimate Q Business (existing customers), Q Developer, QuickSight, and Connect costs. Net-new workforce AI: evaluate Quick Suite after Q Business maintenance (July 2026).
EBS Pricing Calculator
Monthly EBS volume + snapshot breakdown
Model gp3, gp2, io2, st1, and snapshot storage in one monthly estimate — see gp2 legacy pricing and snapshot sprawl before finance asks.
Shield Pricing Calculator
Standard vs Advanced monthly comparison
Compare Shield Standard vs Advanced — model the $3,000/month base, DTO usage, and bundled WAF before the 1-year commitment.
Macie Pricing Calculator
Monthly Macie cost by bucket and GB
Estimate S3 bucket monitoring, object inventory, and sensitive data discovery GB — budget Macie before HIPAA or PCI scope expands.
Security Hub Pricing Calculator
Monthly Security Hub cost per resource unit
Model Essentials resource units and Threat Analytics add-on across EC2, Lambda, ECR, and IAM — consolidated Inspector + CSPM pricing.
Bedrock AgentCore Pricing Calculator
Monthly AgentCore platform cost breakdown
Estimate AgentCore Runtime, Gateway, Memory, Browser, and Code Interpreter platform fees — separate from Bedrock model inference tokens.
Neptune Pricing Calculator
Monthly Neptune cost by mode
Model provisioned vs Serverless NCUs, I/O-Optimized storage, and Analytics m-NCU for graph/RAG workloads.
Security Lake Pricing Calculator
Monthly Security Lake ingestion breakdown
Estimate tiered log ingestion and retention before centralizing CloudTrail and GuardDuty feeds.
Lake Formation Pricing Calculator
Lake Formation governance overhead
Add governance API and optimizer costs on top of your S3/Glue/Athena estimate.
Comprehend Pricing Calculator
Monthly Comprehend NLP unit cost
Price PII detection and NLP units for document pipelines before Bedrock ingestion.
Directory Service Pricing Calculator
Monthly Managed AD cost + annual projection
Forecast Managed Microsoft AD edition, DC count, and sharing costs for hybrid migration.
CodeArtifact Pricing Calculator
Monthly artifact registry cost
Estimate artifact storage, API requests, and transfer — the CI/CD line item missing from most CodeBuild estimates.
IoT Core Pricing Calculator
Monthly IoT messaging breakdown
Model connectivity, MQTT messages, Shadow ops, and Rules Engine at factory-floor scale — see when edge filtering pays off.
Polly Pricing Calculator
Monthly Polly cost by voice tier
Compare Standard, Neural, Long-Form, and Generative TTS tiers — size voice-agent cost per session before you ship.
Storage Gateway Calculator
Monthly hybrid gateway cost by type
Model File, Volume, and Tape gateway upload, storage, snapshot, and retrieval before hybrid migration budgets lock in.
Private CA Calculator
PKI issuance + CA operation cost
Estimate CA operation, tiered certificate issuance, and OCSP before mTLS and internal PKI costs hit the security budget.
CloudHSM Calculator
Dedicated HSM cluster monthly cost
Model hsm2m.medium hourly cluster costs and HA sizing — dedicated FIPS HSM custody that KMS alone cannot price.
IAM Access Analyzer Calculator
Least-privilege monitoring cost
Estimate internal-access monitoring, unused-access analysis, and custom policy checks before org-wide least-privilege rollouts scale.
Timestream Calculator
InfluxDB vs LiveAnalytics monthly cost
Compare Timestream for InfluxDB instance costs vs LiveAnalytics ingestion, memory store, magnetic store, and query TCUs.
Braket Pricing Calculator
Quantum workload monthly cost
Estimate QPU task and shot fees, on-demand simulator minutes, and Hybrid Jobs instance hours before quantum experiments scale.
Cloud Map Calculator
Service discovery monthly cost
Model Cloud Map registry resource-months and DiscoverInstances API volume for HTTP service discovery.
ACM Export Calculator
Exportable cert monthly equivalent
Price exportable ACM public certificates — FQDN and wildcard name fees plus export-certificate API overage.
SageMaker Notebook Calculator
Notebook instance monthly cost
Estimate SageMaker notebook / Unified Studio instance hours and EBS storage for common ml.* sizes.
Cost Explorer Calculator
CE API + hourly monthly cost
Model Cost Explorer API request charges and hourly granularity usage-record hosting for FinOps automation.
Budgets Calculator
Budgets actions + reports cost
Estimate action-enabled budget fees and Budgets Reports delivery costs — monitoring alerts stay free.
CloudFormation Calculator
Registry / Hooks monthly cost
Price third-party registry and custom Hooks handler operations plus duration overage beyond the free tier.
Service Catalog Calculator
Service Catalog API overage
Estimate Service Catalog API overage beyond the 1,000 calls/month free tier for portfolio automation.
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