Pricing

You will incur standard AWS charges for some resources created and used by AppPack in your account.

Some resources are such as EventBridge Events, SSM Parameters, and Lambda Functions are priced so low (fractions of a cent/month) or have such generous free tiers that they are essentially free. Others will not be and are noted below.

To track the cost of your AppPack resources, we recommend setting up User-Defined Cost Allocation Tags. All AppPack resources will get an apppack:* (e.g. apppack:cluster, apppack:appName, apppack:database) tag you can use for fine-grained tracking.

Also don't forget about the Free Tier, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans and AWS Activate Startup Credits!

Account

Account-level resources are created during the initial setup and do not incur any AWS charges.

Region

Region-level resources are created during the initial setup and do not incur any AWS charges.

Cluster

Cluster-level resources are created during the initial setup (or using apppack create cluster). They include the following resources which may incur AWS charges:

• an Application Load Balancer
• Custom Cloudwatch Metrics used by ECS Container Insights

Application/Pipeline

Applications include the following resources which may incur AWS charges

• Fargate Tasks as defined by the application
• CodeBuild minutes used during the automated build/test process
• Cloudwatch Logs for storing application and build logs
• Elastic Container Registry costs to store app images
• S3 usage pricing if the add-on is enabled
• SQS usage pricing if the add-on is enabled
• SES usage pricing if the add-on is enabled

Database

Databases include the following resources which may incur AWS charges:

• RDS Instance(s) (Aurora, Standard MySQL, or Standard Postgres)

Pricing

The --multi-az flag will create two database instances, doubling the cost of the database stack. This is recommended for production instances for maximum uptime, but not necessary for development apps or places where cost optimization is more important than uptime.

Redis

Redis includes the following resources which may incur AWS charges:

• Elasticache Node(s)

Pricing

The --multi-az flag will create two Redis instances, doubling the cost of the Redis stack. This is recommended for production instances for maximum uptime, but not necessary for development apps or places where cost optimization is more important than uptime.