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AWS - Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Concetps
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)- a finicial estimate intended to help buyers and owners detemine the direct and indirect costs of a product or service.
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Creating a TCO report is useful when company is looking to migrate from on-premise to cloud.
Capex vs Opex
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Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)- spending money upfront on physical infrastructure
- deducting the expense from user’s tax bill over time.
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Users have to guess upfront what they plan to spend.
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Capex:- Server Costs (computers)
- Storage Costs (hard drives)
- Network Costs (Routers, Cables, Switches)
- Backup and Archive Costs
- Disaster Recovery Costs
- Datacenter Costs (Rent, Cooling, Physical Security)
- Technical Personal
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Operational Expenditure (OPEX)- The costs associated with an on-premises datacenter that has shifted the cost to the service provider.
- The customer only has to be concerned with non-physical costs.
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Users can try a product or service withou investing in equipment.
OPEX:- Leasing Software and Customizing features
- Training Employees in Cloud Services
- Paying for Cloud Support
- Billing based on cloud metrics e.g
- compute usage
- storage usage
Shifting-IT Personnel
- Migration Phase
- new cloud role
- Hybrid approach
- employees activities to revenue generating.
Services
Pricing Calculator
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AWS Pricing Calculator- a free cost estimate tool to estimate the cost of various AWS services within web-browser without the need for an AWS Account.
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Website: https://calculator.aws/#/
Migration Evaluator
AWS Migration Evaluator- an estimate tool to determine an organization existing on-premise cost so user can compare against AWS Costs for planned cloud migration.
VM Import/Export
VM Import/Export- allows users to import Virtual Machine images into EC2.
Database Migration Service (DMS)
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)- allows to quickly and securely migrate one database to another.
- DMS can be used to migrate on-premise database to AWS.
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)- a whitepaper to help user plan migration from on-premise to AWS.
