The cost of running this deployment in the EU-West-1 region is as follows:
| Instance type | # Instances | Total cost per hour | Total cost per day | Total cost per month |
| EC2 instances (t2.micro) | 3 | $0.038 | $0.091 | $27.22 |
| RDS instance (t2.micro)—Master and Standby | 2 | $0.036 | $0.086 | $25.92 |
| Application Load Balancer | 1 | $0.033 | $0.80 | $23.90 |
| 5 GB EFS | 1 | $0.002 | £0.06 | $1.65 |
| Total: | $0.109 | $2.62 | $78.69 | |
There will be a few other small costs, such as bandwidth and the cost of storing the AMI that contains our software stack. We could look at reducing these costs significantly by removing some of the redundancy, by disabling the multi-AZ RDS instance and also reducing the number of EC2 instances down to just one; however, this ...
