Today I learned of an interesting tool called Cloudbanshee which is a tool that allows you to quickly filter and sort EC2 instances by almost all configurable factors to determine costs quickly. It’s useful if you’re not paying for a commercial product to constantly monitor prices and lock in savings when you want (I will post about some of these commercial products in a future blog post).
So far I’ve used it to determine some of the lower end of things and how they’re priced and how their features compare with each other. As a Systems Architect just moving into AWS, it’s a very handy tool to quickly grab pricing data for modeling the cost of moving a compute workload into the could. Though we all know there are many faucets of how any workload is priced before committing it to cloud usage. It’s still one of the quicker tools I’ve come across.’
You can check out the website by clicking here.