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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
I don't have any experience with Amazon EC2, how much would it cost to run a vault server 24/7 for a year? Just enough space to host a few seasons worth of CAD files, 10GB max.
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It depends on alot of things. The way Amazon EC2 does pricing can be somewhat confusing at first. They offer concepts like 'spot instances' to allow websites to rapidly allocate additional non persistent serving potential.
They also offer 'Reserved' Instances, which allow you to pay an up front annual, or three year fee to allow for cheaper hourly rates.
To run amazon vault, I imagine at least a 'small' instance would be required.
If you took advantage of the annual leasing option, a small instance would be $69 up front, followed by $0.059 per hour, adding up to an average of 47 dollars a month, or $573 for the full year.
However, if you only wanted to run the server during competition season and not pay the upfront fee, it'd cost ~$82 a month.
Memory costs wouldn't be your problem, a small instance comes with 160 GB of storage space, however amazon charges bandwidth after the first gigabyte of out/inbound traffic at 12 cents a gigabyte. Depending on your use case/how efficient vault is this could run you a bit. IE if you have 40 work stations that all view all of your 10 GB worth of content.. etc

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It isn't free, but it is viable. It's also plausible that multiple teams could share a vault server.