Enhancement: Provide Data Transfer costs?

[bkmdev]

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Hi, First off, thanks for pulling this together, wonderful tool! This has made looking at AWS pricing soo much easier 👍

Regarding the request: would it be possible to also provide a column on incoming/outgoing data transfer costs? (perhaps calculated off a form field at the top specifying expected incoming/outgoing/or total transfer usage?) If not that, perhaps some kind of note stating what the rates are would help so one can at least get a more accurate idea of the true total AWS cost.

My understanding is data transfer rates are the same for all instance types but do have various rules based on amount, region, etc. It would be nice to be able to see this here too, since this presents the data in a consolidated table!

Thanks!

[blckct]

It is the same for all instance types, I'm not quite sure there would be much added value, especially since it's only one of many costs you could add that are the same for all the instances.

[bkmdev]

What other costs were you thinking of? I agree AWS could have a lot of other service costs that can be added (ie: RDS, Lambda, etc.), but network pricing seems like something that still relates to some of the instance networking parameters available (VS some random other AWS service offering).

The use case I was thinking of was when comparing AWS to other providers that often bundle networking costs in. This would help to ensure one is comparing "apples-to-apples".

I realize this may complicate the UI a bit but perhaps there is a way to preserve the simple table view but enhance it with this data?

Thanks!

[blckct]

Well, what about the cost of storage? I think that's a more important one than networking as it won't vary and you have to factor it into your instance bill.

Well, I just wanted to voice in my opinion, it's not my project but if you want to try it I could give you some help if possible.