Note: We offer a service for "Installation and Setup of your SocialEngine website on Amazon Cloud (AWS)" and "Speeding up your SocialEngine Website".

One of the major reasons why Amazon Web Service is preferred by the clients is that they offer reliable, scalable, inexpensive cloud computing and pay-as-you-go pricing approach. In the last few months, a large number of our clients have moved over to Amazon as a hosting solution and are enjoying the ultimate experience being provided by Amazon.

We are delighted to share with you that Amazon has recently announced further reductions for various AWS services (including EC2, RDS, S3 and CloudFront) in its price followed by the cost-effective reductions provided last year, allowing users to have a great hosting platform in just $45 a month. To calculate the cost estimates for hosting your website on AWS, you can use this easy calculator: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html .

For medium-sized communities, we would suggest below AWS services to be used with their respective cost estimates:

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Amazon EC2:-
Configuration: Linux on t2.medium + 1 year Heavy Reserved
Cost Estimates Break-up: One-Time Payment of USD 302

Amazon RDS:-
Configuration: db.t2.small + 1 year Heavy Utilization Reserved
Cost Estimates Break-up: One-Time Payment of USD 102 + Monthly Payment of USD 8
Total Yearly Cost Estimate: USD 198

Amazon S3 Storage + Cloud Front
Cost Estimates Break-up: USD 3 Monthly
Total Yearly Cost Estimate: USD 36
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Hence, Total Yearly Cost Estimate of above services = USD 302 + USD 198 + USD 36 = USD 536 (USD 45 monthly) 

The above cost estimate is applicable for the hosting configuration that we’ve recommended on Amazon AWS for a medium-sized community. As your community grows, the flexibility of AWS enables you to re-size your configurations.

For the above cost estimates, we have considered 1 year reserved instances. After you are comfortable with your AWS hosting configurations, you can save further by going for 3 years reserved instances. For above configurations, the cost estimates for 3 years Reserved Instances of EC2 + RDS + S3 + CloudFront are: USD 1113 (USD 607 + USD 398 + USD 108)

Total effective yearly cost estimate of above services for 3 years reserved instances = USD 372 (USD 31 monthly)

If you would like to use our service for setting up your SocialEngine based community on Amazon AWS infrastructure, or to migrate your existing SocialEngine website from a different hosting to Amazon AWS, then please order our services: "SocialEngine Setup and Installation on Amazon Cloud (AWS)" and "Website Migration Service".