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Answers to questions about AWS that we often see at Cornell.


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Costs

What is the cost of the the Cornell standard AWS configuration?

The cost of Standard AWS Account Configurations can be broken into two parts: 

  • Basic auditing configurations (i.e., CloudTrail, AWS Config)
    • This costs in the ballpark of about $10/month, even if you aren't actively using the AWS account.
  • Cornell standard VPC and it's associated NAT gateway
    • This costs 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 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.

What is the AWS Data Egress Waiver?

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This chart of recent billing data shows that Cornell is not near the 15% cap of the Data Egress Waiver.

BIlling

How come my AWS bill contains charges for EC2 when I haven't used EC2 at all?

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