AWS Terraform Resources

An EC2 virtual machine. Priced per hour by instance type, OS, tenancy, and region, with separate charges for attached EBS volumes and data transfer.

A container image registry. Priced per GB-month stored, with the first 500 MB free, plus data transfer charges.

An ECS cluster. The cluster itself is free. Cost comes from the EC2 instances and Fargate tasks that run inside it.

A long-running ECS service. Cost depends on launch type: EC2 (pay for nodes), Fargate (pay per task vCPU/memory), or Fargate Spot.

A managed Kubernetes control plane. Flat $0.10/hour per cluster, with worker nodes and storage billed separately.

A managed relational database instance on RDS. Priced per hour by instance class, engine, deployment option, and region, with storage and IOPS billed separately.

A managed NoSQL table. Pay-per-request (on-demand) or provisioned capacity, plus storage. No instances to manage.

Managed Redis or Memcached. Priced per node-hour by instance type, with no storage or request charges.

A managed ETL job using Spark or Python shell. Priced per DPU-hour with 1-minute billing minimum, plus development endpoint and Data Catalog costs.

A managed OpenSearch (formerly Elasticsearch) cluster. Priced per node-hour by instance type, plus storage and optional UltraWarm/Cold tiers.

An Aurora cluster (MySQL or PostgreSQL compatible). Priced by per-instance compute, storage by GB used, and I/O (Standard) or compute (I/O-Optimized).

A managed data warehouse. Two compute models: classic node-based pricing (per-hour) or Redshift Serverless (per-RPU-hour), plus managed storage.

A real-time data stream. Two capacity modes: Provisioned (priced per shard-hour) or On-Demand (priced per record and per GB).

A managed Apache Kafka cluster. Priced per broker-hour by instance type, plus EBS storage per GB-month and data transfer.

A pub/sub topic for sending notifications. Priced per message published, per delivery, and by destination protocol.

A managed message queue. Priced per request, with no per-queue or storage fee. Generous free tier.

A REST API endpoint. Priced per request, with no base hourly fee. Cheaper than ALB at low volume.

A CDN distribution. Priced by data transfer to viewers and request count, with rates varying by region.

A dedicated physical network connection from on-premises to AWS. Priced per port-hour by bandwidth, plus per-GB data transfer at a lower rate than internet.

A network hub connecting multiple VPCs, VPNs, and Direct Connects. $0.05/hour per attachment plus $0.02/GB processed.

A static public IPv4 address. Free while attached and in use, $0.005/hour while detached or unassociated. As of 2024, also charges per-hour for attached IPv4 in some scenarios.

A managed load balancer (ALB or NLB). Priced per hour plus per LCU/NLCU based on processed traffic.

A managed NAT gateway for outbound internet access from private subnets. Notoriously expensive: $0.045/hour plus $0.045/GB processed.

A DNS hosted zone. Flat $0.50/month per zone, plus tiered per-query charges.

A private endpoint into AWS services from your VPC. Gateway endpoints (S3, DynamoDB) are free; Interface endpoints are ~$7/month per AZ plus data fees.

A site-to-site IPsec VPN connection between your VPC and on-premises network. $0.05/hour per active connection plus data transfer.

An audit log of AWS API calls. Management events are free. Data events and Insights are billed per event.

A log group for storing application and AWS service logs. Priced by ingestion ($0.50/GB), storage ($0.03/GB-month), and queries.

A managed encryption key. Flat $1/month per key, plus per-request charges for cryptographic operations.

A managed secret with versioning, rotation, and IAM-controlled access. Flat $0.40/month per secret plus per-API-call charges.

A web application firewall. $5/month per Web ACL, $1/month per rule, plus $0.60 per million inspected requests.

A serverless function billed by request count and execution duration. Free tier covers 1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month.

A persistent block storage volume. Priced per GB-month by volume type, with separate IOPS and throughput charges on certain types.

A managed NFS file system for shared access from EC2, ECS, EKS, and Lambda. Priced per GB stored, with tiered storage classes.

Object storage on S3. Priced by storage class, request count, and data transfer, with the bucket itself being free.