Streaming Support for Data Intensive Cloud-Based Sequence Analysis

Table 1

Amazon services: virtual machines, storage, data transfer, and disk access. This information is for the Amazon US site. Prices for other sites are available on the AWS website.

Resource type	AWS service	Service unit	CPUs (#(GHz))	Memory (GB)	Cost ($/Hr)
		m1.large	2 (2)	7.5	0.32
		m1.xlarge	4 (2)	15	0.64
Computation	EC2	c1.xlarge	8 (2.5)	7	0.66
		m2.4xlarge	8 (3.25)	68.4	1.80
		cc1.4xlarge	8 (4.19)	23	1.30
Resource type	AWS service	Service unit	Size	Tiers	Cost ($/GB/month)
	S3	Bucket	Unlimited	1st 1 TB	0.14
Storage	S3	Bucket	Unlimited	Next 450 TB	0.1
	S3	Bucket	Unlimited	Next 4000 TB	0.08
	EBS	Volume	Up to 1 TB		0.10
Resource type	AWS service	Service unit	Type	Size	Cost ($/GB/month)
	S3	I/O	Data IN/within AWS	Any	0.00
	S3	I/O	Data OUT	1st 1 GB	0.00
Data transfer	S3	I/O	Data OUT	Next 10 TB	0.12
	S3	I/O	Data OUT	Next 100 TB	0.07
	S3	I/O	Data OUT	Next 150+ TB	0.05
	S3	API	GET, PUT, POST	1 K request	0.01
Disk access	S3	API	COPY, LIST	1 K request	0.01
	EBS	I/O	R/W	1 M request	0.1