How to do it...

  1. Navigate to https://awstcocalculator.com/.
  2. Choose your currency, location, AWS region, and workload type. In our case we're going to choose the following:
  • Australian dollar
  • Colocation
  • Asia Pacific (Sydney)
  • General
TCO Calculatorworkload
  1. Now we need to describe our server requirements. We're going to specify that our app is running on physical servers with tiers that look like this:
  • App Name: nginx
    • Server Type: Non DB
    • # of Processors/Server: 2
    • # of Cores/Processor: 2
    • # of Servers: 2
    • Memory (GB): 16
  • App Name: rails
    • Server Type: Non DB
    • # of Processors/Server: 2
    • # of Cores/Processor: 4
    • # of Servers: 4
    • Memory (GB) ...

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