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mmmm costs $1226.4 just to run without datacost being accounted for.

I love the idea but I feel the pricing should of been like s3 I.E just paying for storage and bandwidth.

I can't see how you would get out a key from the system when you add a new record...



That $0.14/hour is the amount of processing you do, not the hourly cost to use the service.

$1226.4 is if you're hammering the data-base with intense queries 100% of the time (so it's always being utilised).

In reality (though this depends on how efficient their database is) it'll likely be orders of magnitude smaller.


So $.14/hour is for a full unit of processing for an hour? What's the smallest amount of processing you can get?


"SimpleDB costs 14 cents per machine hour, with no minimum fee."

I guess we won't know the costs in reality until the service is up. It pretty much all depends on how efficient their implementation is.


so if you get one hit to the db per hour then you are going to end up paying for it big time.


How exactly?

If a query takes 1ms, you're going to pay for one sixty-thousanth of $0.14 . I fail to see what you're doing? Or am I missing something?


I thought it was charged like this, if you use it once then the minimum amount you will be charged is for an hours usage per hour.

but it could end up really expensive if you are hitting your database a lot. 100k users hitting a 2 second query per view ain't going to be cheap.


No.

Machine Utilization - $0.14 per Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hour consumed

Amazon SimpleDB measures the machine utilization of each request and charges based on the amount of machine capacity used to complete the particular request (QUERY, GET, PUT, etc.), normalized to the hourly capacity of a circa 2007 1.7 GHz Xeon processor.


Amazon SimpleDB measures the machine utilization of each request and charges based on the amount of machine capacity used to complete the particular request (QUERY, GET, PUT, etc.), normalized to the hourly capacity of a circa 2007 1.7 GHz Xeon processor.

From here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=342335011


I am guessing there a few AWS fanboys on here for this to be modded down :P

does anyone know if this works like ec2 or not when it comes to hourly charging?


IMO it doesn't make sense for SimpleDB to be billed like EC2. An EC2 instance is using resources even when it's idle, so Amazon has to bill for that. Because SimpleDB is (presumably) fine-grained multi-tenant, it should only bill for the time consumed by query execution. It would have been clearer if Amazon priced it at 0.0000000388 dollars per millisecond or something, but then people might scratch their heads over rounding errors.




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