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AI Training Costs on AWS: Complete Guide

AI model training costs on AWS broken down by compute, storage, and data transfer. Fine-tune a 7B model from $50 or pre-train from $100K+.

March 15, 202610 min read

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Full-stack web application development and deployment platform

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AWS Amplify Pricing: Full-Stack App Hosting Costs

AWS Amplify pricing: build minutes at $0.01/min, bandwidth at $0.15/GB, storage at $0.023/GB. Free tier includes 1,000 build minutes monthly.

March 15, 20266 min read

Container deployment and cloud application architecture

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AWS App Runner Pricing: Container Deployment Costs

AWS App Runner pricing: active instances at $0.064/vCPU-hour and $0.007/GB-hour. Provisioned instances cost 50% less. Free tier not available.

March 15, 20266 min read

API architecture and real-time data connections

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AWS AppSync Pricing: GraphQL API Costs

AWS AppSync pricing: queries and mutations at $4.00/million, real-time updates at $2.00/million connection-minutes. Free tier: 250K queries/month.

March 15, 20266 min read

Team analyzing data and analytics dashboards

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AWS Athena Pricing: Query Costs and Optimization

AWS Athena pricing is $5 per TB of data scanned. Learn how partitioning, columnar formats, and compression cut query costs by up to 90%.

March 15, 20266 min read

Server infrastructure processing large-scale computing workloads in a data center

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AWS Batch Pricing: Job Processing Costs

AWS Batch has no additional charge. You pay only for EC2 or Fargate resources used. Spot instances can save 60-90% on batch processing workloads.

March 15, 20266 min read

Team analyzing text data and natural language processing results on screen

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AWS Comprehend Pricing: NLP Analysis Costs

AWS Comprehend NLP pricing starts at $0.0001 per unit with 50K free units monthly for 12 months. Compare entity, sentiment, custom model, and PII costs.

March 15, 20267 min read

Network cables and fiber optic connections in a modern data center facility

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AWS Direct Connect Pricing: Dedicated Network Costs

AWS Direct Connect port pricing starts at $0.30/hr for 1 Gbps. Data transfer OUT costs $0.02-$0.05/GB, saving up to 78% vs standard internet egress.

March 15, 20267 min read

Database architecture and document storage systems

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AWS DocumentDB Pricing: MongoDB-Compatible Costs

AWS DocumentDB pricing starts at $0.348/hr for db.r5.large. Compare instance-based and Elastic Clusters with storage and I/O costs.

March 15, 20266 min read

Container registry and Docker image storage infrastructure

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AWS ECR Pricing: Container Registry Costs

AWS ECR pricing: private repos at $0.10/GB-month storage. Public repos offer 50 GB free storage and 500 GB free bandwidth for anonymous pulls.

March 15, 20267 min read

Big data processing and analytics infrastructure

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AWS EMR Pricing: EC2, EKS, and Serverless Costs

AWS EMR pricing adds a 15-25% surcharge over EC2 costs. Compare EMR on EC2, EKS, and Serverless with Spot savings up to 90%.

March 15, 20266 min read

Event-driven architecture and message routing system

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AWS EventBridge Pricing: Event Bus Costs

AWS EventBridge pricing: custom events at $1.00/million, Pipes at $0.40/million, Archive at $0.10/GB. AWS and partner events are always free.

March 15, 20266 min read

Server storage infrastructure with file systems and data management

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AWS FSx Pricing: Windows, Lustre, NetApp, OpenZFS

AWS FSx pricing from $0.013/GB-month for Windows File Server SSD. Compare Lustre, NetApp ONTAP, and OpenZFS costs with optimization tips.

March 15, 20266 min read

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AWS cost optimization, written down.

AI Training Costs on AWS: Complete Guide

AWS Amplify Pricing: Full-Stack App Hosting Costs

AWS App Runner Pricing: Container Deployment Costs

AWS AppSync Pricing: GraphQL API Costs

AWS Athena Pricing: Query Costs and Optimization

AWS Batch Pricing: Job Processing Costs

AWS Comprehend Pricing: NLP Analysis Costs

AWS Direct Connect Pricing: Dedicated Network Costs

AWS DocumentDB Pricing: MongoDB-Compatible Costs

AWS ECR Pricing: Container Registry Costs

AWS EMR Pricing: EC2, EKS, and Serverless Costs

AWS EventBridge Pricing: Event Bus Costs

AWS FSx Pricing: Windows, Lustre, NetApp, OpenZFS

AWS GPU Instance Pricing: P5, P4d, G5, Inf2

AWS GuardDuty Pricing: Threat Detection Costs

AWS Inferentia vs GPU: ML Inference Cost Guide

AWS KMS Pricing: Encryption Key Costs

AWS MSK Pricing: Managed Kafka Costs

AWS MemoryDB Pricing: Redis-Compatible Costs

AWS Neptune Pricing: Graph Database Costs

AWS Polly Pricing: Text-to-Speech Costs

AWS Rekognition Pricing: Image and Video Analysis

AWS SES Pricing: Email Sending Costs Explained

AWS Secrets Manager Pricing: Secret Storage Costs

AWS Textract Pricing: Document Processing Costs

AWS Timestream Pricing: Time-Series Database Costs

AWS Transcribe Pricing: Speech-to-Text Costs

AWS WAF Pricing: Web Application Firewall Costs

LLM Hosting vs API: AWS Cost Comparison

RAG System Costs on AWS: Optimization Guide

SageMaker Canvas: No-Code ML Pricing Guide

SageMaker Feature Store Pricing Guide

SageMaker Ground Truth: Data Labeling Costs

SageMaker HyperPod: Distributed Training Costs

SageMaker Inference: Real-Time vs Serverless

SageMaker JumpStart: Foundation Model Costs

SageMaker Pipelines: MLOps Workflow Costs

SageMaker Studio Pricing: IDE and Notebook Costs

SageMaker Training: Spot, Distributed, and Costs

SageMaker vs Vertex AI: ML Platform Comparison

AWS API Gateway Pricing 2026: REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs

AWS Bedrock Agents: Build AI That Takes Action

AWS Bedrock Batch Inference: 50% Lower Cost

AWS Bedrock Cost Optimization: Cut LLM API Costs

AWS Bedrock Embeddings: Vector Search Guide

AWS Bedrock Enterprise: Security and Compliance

AWS Bedrock Fine-Tuning: Customize Models

AWS Bedrock Guardrails: Content Filtering Guide

AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases: Build RAG Systems

AWS Bedrock Pricing: Every Model and Feature Cost

AWS Bedrock Prompt Management: Version and Test

AWS Bedrock vs SageMaker: When to Use Each

AWS CloudFront Cost Optimization: Cut CDN Costs

AWS Cognito Pricing: User Pools and MAU Costs

AWS Data Transfer Cost Optimization Guide

AWS DynamoDB Cost Optimization: Cut NoSQL Costs

AWS EBS Cost Optimization: Cut Storage Costs

AWS ElastiCache Pricing: Redis, Valkey, Memcached

AWS Fargate Cost Optimization: Cut Container Costs

AWS Glue Pricing 2026: ETL Jobs, Data Catalog, and Crawlers

AWS Kinesis Pricing: Streams, Firehose, Analytics

AWS Lightsail Pricing: Hosting from $3.50/Month

AWS OpenSearch Pricing: Clusters and Serverless

AWS Redshift Pricing: Data Warehouse Costs

AWS Route 53 Pricing: DNS, Queries, Health Checks

AWS S3 Cost Optimization: 10 Storage Strategies

AWS SNS Pricing: Notifications, SMS, and Email

AWS SQS Pricing: Standard vs FIFO Queue Costs

AWS SageMaker Cost Optimization: Cut ML Costs

AWS Step Functions Pricing: Standard vs Express

CloudWatch Cost Optimization: Cut Monitoring Costs

AI Cost Optimization: Reduce LLM and GPU Spend

AWS CloudWatch Pricing: Metrics, Logs, and Costs

AWS EC2 Cost Optimization: 12 Proven Strategies

AWS ECS Pricing: Fargate vs EC2 Launch Types

AWS EFS Pricing: Storage Classes and Costs

AWS Lambda Cost Optimization: Reduce Serverless Costs 30-50%

AWS Load Balancer Pricing: ALB, NLB, GWLB

AWS RDS Cost Optimization: Save 30-60% on DBs