AWS Cost & ROI Calculator
Calculate real-time infrastructure costs using actual AWS us-east-1 pricing. Visualize cost distribution, analyze automation ROI, and discover optimization opportunities for your student data infrastructure deployment.
Infrastructure Parameters
IAM Users
50
Active users requiring IAM provisioning
S3 Storage (GB)
500 GB
Student records, transcripts, and documents
RDS Runtime (hrs/month)
730 hrs
730 hours = 24/7 operation
ECS Fargate Tasks
4
Application containers running concurrently
Data Transfer Out (GB/month)
200 GB
Outbound bandwidth to users and integrations
Estimated Monthly Cost
$0
per month (us-east-1)
Annual estimate: $0
Cost Distribution
$0
Monthly
IAM Automation ROI
Real Savings
67%
Faster Provisioning
0%
Error Rate
$12,450
Annual Savings
100%
Compliance
Manual Provisioning
150 min
~3 minutes per user via console
→
Automated Pipeline
45 sec
Script execution + validation
AWS Service Breakdown
us-east-1 pricingRDS PostgreSQL
$0
db.r6g.xlarge Multi-AZ
NAT Gateway
$0
2 AZs + data processing
ECS Fargate
$0
vCPU + Memory
Load Balancer
$0
ALB + LCU charges
S3 Storage
$0
Standard + requests
Data Transfer
$0
Outbound to internet
CloudWatch
$0
Metrics + alarms
Audit Logging
$0
CloudTrail + Flow Logs
Cost Optimization Tips
Up to 60%
Reserved Instances
Commit to 1-3 year RDS Reserved Instances for significant database cost reduction.
Up to 50%
Compute Savings Plans
Apply Savings Plans to ECS Fargate workloads for predictable compute discounts.
Up to 40%
S3 Intelligent-Tiering
Automatically move infrequently accessed data to lower-cost storage classes.
Variable
VPC Endpoints
Eliminate NAT Gateway charges for S3 and DynamoDB with VPC endpoints.
Up to 30%
Right-Sizing
Analyze CloudWatch metrics to identify over-provisioned resources.
Up to 70%
Fargate Spot
Use Spot capacity for fault-tolerant, interruptible workloads.