1. How much would
Pinterest or TripAdvisor cost
to host on the cloud?
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini
@PlanForCloud, @AliKhajeh

2. Inspired by two blogs posts
on HighScalability.com
How much would it cost to deploy
System X on Cloud Y?
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/10/2/an-epic-tripadvisor-update-why-not-run-on-the-cloud-the-gran.html
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/21/pinterest-architecture-update-18-million-visitors-10x-growth.html

4. $1.7M/year

5. Would it be cheaper to use
deployment option X or Y?
e.g. reserved instances, different types of instances,
different cloud providers…
Over 7,000 prices in PlanForCloud

6. $0.9M/year
(using
reserved
instances)
1st
month:
$450K
AAer:
$38K/month

7. What
happens
to
costs
if
system
grows?
e.g.
start
with
410TB
of
S3
storage,
then
grow
by
25%
every
month

8. Currently:
$39K/month
1yr
from
now:
$470K/month

9. Moral
of
the
story?
It
pays
to
do
some
upfront
cost
forecasKng
and
comparing