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- Basic auditing configurations (i.e., CloudTrail, AWS Config) for Cornell AWS accounts
- This costs in the ballpark of about $10$11/month, even if you aren't actively using the AWS account.
Graph of Typical Costs for auditing configurations
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- This costs in the ballpark of about $10$11/month, even if you aren't actively using the AWS account.
- Cornell standard VPC and its associated NAT gateway
- This costs The total with additional costs for the VPC and NAT gateway are in the ballpark of about $40/month, even if you aren't actively using the AWS account. A big part of that is the NAT gateway which costs about $1/day.
- You will see this larger baseline cost only if the Cloud Team has configured a Cornell Standard VPC.
- AWS accounts used for research generally don't have a Cornell Standard VPC configured so their monthly costs are on the order of $11 / month.
Why do I see charges from AWS services in other parts of the world?
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