LAB 11 ‐ Cost Calculator - gautam-amitesh/OCI GitHub Wiki

OCI Cost Estimator

In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, compute and storage are essentially infinite, which means our potential bill is also infinite. So for financial predictability we need Oracle Cloud Cost Estimator.

  • In OCI search tab search for Estimating Monthly Costs and click on Documentation link

  • On the Documentation page click on Cost Estimator Generation 2 which will open cost estimator

Estimating Cost

Change country according to your currency preference

  • Click on country flag

  • choose country

  • which also change currency format

  1. Cost Estimation for Compute Service

  • Under Services in Select category dropdown select Compute

  • In Virtual Machine tile click on Load

  • On this page configure your VM build, Storage - Block Volumes, and Utilization Time and monitor how price changes

    • Processor: Ampere (Each tenancy gets the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free to create Ampere A1 Compute instances.)

    • Processor: AMD (cheaper)

    • Processor: Intel (expensive)

    • Block Volumes: 200GB & Balanced

    • Block Volumes: 400GB & Balanced

    • Block Volumes: 400GB & High performance

    • Block Volumes: 400GB, Ultra high performance & 30 VPU

    • Block Volumes: 400GB, Ultra high performance & 50 VPU

    • Block Volumes: select Apply 200GB Free Tier Discount (reduces cost for 200GB once per tenancy)

    • UTILIZATION: eg. for grocery shop which runs 14 hrs/day & 5 days a week (reduces cost a lot)

  1. Cost Estimation for Networking Service

  • Under Services in Select category dropdown select Networking

  • In Virtual Cloud Networks tile click on Load

  • On this page configure your Outbound Data Transfer and Gigabyte Outbound Data Transfer Per Month and monitor how price changes

    • For Outbound Data Transfer - Originating in North America, Europe, and UK free till 10240 Gigabyte Outbound Data Transfer Per Month above this limit Gigabyte Outbound Data Transfer Per Month Unit price: ₹0.80752125

    • For Outbound Data Transfer - Originating in APAC, Japan, and South America free till 10240 Gigabyte Outbound Data Transfer Per Month above this limit Gigabyte Outbound Data Transfer Per Month Unit price: ₹2.3750625

    • For Outbound Data Transfer - Originating in Middle East and Africa free till 10240 Gigabyte Outbound Data Transfer Per Month above this limit Gigabyte Outbound Data Transfer Per Month Unit price: ₹4.750125