Recommendation:
| Estimated Cost / Month |
|
Hourly Billing |
Monthly Billing |
| Compute |
- |
- |
| Storage |
- |
- |
| Networking* |
- |
- |
| Dedicated instances region fee |
- |
- |
| Total IaaS / mo |
- |
- |
| IaaS / desktop / mo |
- |
- |
Note: Estimate does not include Windows license costs.
Networking includes bandwidth cost estimates.
Resources listed below are for Reserved Instances
| Category |
AWS Resources |
AWS SKU |
Quantity |
Storage |
Estimated $/Desktop/mo |
| Compute |
Dedicated Instance |
|
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| Storage |
Storage |
|
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|
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| Networking |
Gateways |
|
|
|
|
| Networking |
Gateway Storage |
|
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| Networking |
Enterprise Connector |
|
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|
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| Networking |
Enterprise Connector Storage |
|
|
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| Dedicated instances region fee |
|
Instructions
Amazon Workspaces Core Managed Instances Details
Enter details of the desktop pool.
1. Region: Select the region from the dropdown where you want to set up your desktop pool
2. VM Class: Select the VM class from the dropdown
3. Desktop Configuration: Select the configuration of the desktop from the dropdown
4. License Type: Based on the use case, select the license type from the drop down (persistent or non-persistent)
5. VM Disk Size: Select the storage that you would want to attach to the VM
6. VM hrs/mo: Enter the expected number of hours per month for each VM in your pool (typical knowledge worker VMs run 160 hours per month)
7. Number of VMs: Enter the number of VMs expected to be in the desktop pool
Customer IaaS Discounts
Enter the discounts you might have received from your IaaS provider.
1. Hourly Billing: Enter the discounts that you get for Hourly Billing
2. Monthly Billing: Enter the discounts that you get for Monthly Billing
3. GP2: Enter the discounts that you get on GP2 storage disks
Estimated Cost / Month
The estimated costs for running the desktop pool are summarized here.
1. A monthly $ estimate of the resources required to run the desktop pool based on a choice between Hourly Billing and Monthly Billing. It recommends the cheapest option of the two
2. Summary provides a split of compute, storage and networking costs.
3. Overview of all the resources that would be required based on the resources you have selected along with their quantity, size, estimated $/Desktop/mo