

To start estimating EC2 costs, you need to get familiar with the predefined instance types, so you can identify the best one for you.

Creating a cost estimate will help you better understand your system's needs and set some expectations around the budget of the project. To estimate your compute EC2 costs, you can use the AWS Pricing Calculator.

If you want to run your workloads on EC2, it’s always a good idea to estimate your costs based on your designed architecture. Among many compute options are EC2 instances that offer a wide choice of compute power: processor, storage, and networking. So there is no need to manage the infrastructure to deploy individual microservices.Ĭontainer-based deployment and Kubernetes have immense cost-savings potential and are a common approach to reduce operational efforts for deployment.ĮCS and EKS are great for container management, but you still need a compute layer to run your containers. Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) are container management services that support Docker containers and allow you to run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. So many companies use containerized technology on top of ECS or EKS to run microservice applications on AWS. Containers are used to package all the necessary executables, configuration files, code, and dependencies so that an application can run reliably on any computing environment. One of the most used in the past few years is the container pattern, especially with the rise of Docker containers. There are many strategies by which you can deploy a microservice-based application.
