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Table 2 Amazon Services: virtual machines, storage, data transfer, and disk access (US-East site)

From: Personalized cloud-based bioinformatics services for research and education: use cases and the elasticHPC package

Resource Type

AWS Service

Service Unit

CPUs

(#(GHz))

Memory (GB)

Cost($/hr)

  

m1.large

2 (2)

7.5

0.32

  

m1.xlarge

4 (2)

15

0.64

Computation

EC2

c1.xlarge

8(2.5)

7

0.66

  

m2.4 × large

8 (3.25)

68.4

1.80

  

cc1.4 × large

8 (4.19)

23

1.30

Resource Type

AWS Service

Service Unit

Size

Tiers

Cost ($/GB/Month)

 

S3

Bucket

unlimited

1st 1 TB

0.14

Storage

S3

Bucket

unlimited

Next 450 TB

0.1

 

S3

Bucket

unlimited

Next 4000 TB

0.08

 

EBS

Volume

Up to 1 TB

 

0.10

Resource Type

AWS Service

Service Unit

Type

Size

Cost ($/GB/Month)

 

S3

I/O

Data IN/Within AWS

Any

0.00

 

S3

I/O

Data OUT

1st 1 GB

0.00

Data transfer

S3

I/O

Data OUT

Next 10 TB

0.12

 

S3

I/O

Data OUT

Next 100 TB

0.07

 

S3

I/O

Data OUT

Next 150+ TB

0.05

 

S3

API

GET/PUT/POST

1 K Requests

0.01

Data Access

S3

API

COPY/LIST

1 K Requests

0.01

 

EBS

I/O

R/W

1 M Requests

0.1