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What is Amazon Pricing Calculator?

Amazon Pricing Calculator is a web-based planning tool that you can use to create estimates for your Amazon use cases. You can use it to model your solutions before building them, explore the Amazon service price points, and review the calculations behind your estimates. You can use it to help you plan how you spend, find cost saving opportunities, and make informed decisions when using Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Pricing Calculator is useful for those who have never used Amazon. It's also useful for those who want to reorganize or expand their Amazon usage. You don't need any experience with the cloud or Amazon to use Amazon Pricing Calculator.

Amazon Pricing Calculator is available through a web-based console at https://calculator.amazonaws.cn/ .

Features of Amazon Pricing Calculator

With Amazon Pricing Calculator, you can do the following tasks:

  • View transparent prices – See the calculations behind the estimated prices for your service configurations. You can view price estimates by service or by groups of services to analyze your architecture costs.

  • Use groups for hierarchical estimates – Sort your estimates into groups to align with your architecture for clear service cost analysis.

  • Share your estimates – Save the link to each estimate to share or revisit at a later time. Estimates are saved to the Amazon public servers.

  • Export your estimates – Export your estimates in CSV or PDF format to share locally with your stakeholders.

Pricing for Amazon Pricing Calculator

Amazon Pricing Calculator is provided at no charge. It provides an estimate of your Amazon fees and charges, but the estimate doesn't include any taxes that might apply. Amazon Pricing Calculator provides pricing details for only the information you enter. If the prices on the marketing pages are different from the prices that Amazon Pricing Calculator uses, Amazon honors the prices from the marketing pages. For more information about Amazon service pricing, see Cloud Services Pricing.

The prices that Amazon Pricing Calculator uses for the estimates come from the Amazon Price List API. For more information about the Amazon Price List API, see Using the Amazon Price List API in the Amazon Billing User Guide.

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