AWS Costs

Here we will publish AWS cost info as the project evolves.

This will not vary much based on your Waze users base or city size, since the main cost is just in running the database, not the amount of data you store. Here's an idea of the costs of the AWS Cloud Formation code so far for the raw data 2-minute storage into an RDS.

Cost Breakdown

Louisville started collecting AWS data on Nov 1. As of June 2018 it is 12GB of data across 155K JSON files in an S3 bucket. It's about 8 cents for 2GB of data per month. After a year it will be 24GB, so 50 cents in total per month.

There are Lambdas in the infrastructure now too, but they are in the free tier.

The main cost is the relational database. This is around $200 a month. The RDS has to run every 2 minutes to ingest data. We do have a plan to get the cost to under $100 a month by splitting the database into a real-time and a historic one.