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During the free tier: ~$0.83/month (just the domain name). After the free tier: ~$11/month (EC2 t2.micro ~$8.50, EBS 30 GB ~$2.40, MongoDB Atlas and Vercel remain free).
AWS Cost Optimization and Free Tier Keeping Your Node.js Deployment Affordable
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750 hours per month of t2.micro instances for 12 months. This is enough to run one instance 24/7 (730 hours/month). Also includes 30 GB of EBS storage and 750 hours of AWS Lambda.
Use the free tier (t2.micro, MongoDB Atlas free tier, Vercel/Netlify for frontend), stop instances when not in use, use Spot instances for non-critical work, choose the right instance type, use reserved instances for production, and set up billing alerts.
Elastic IPs when not attached to a running instance (~$3.60/month), NAT Gateway ($0.045/hour + data), Load Balancer (~$16/month), EBS beyond 30 GB ($0.08/GB), and data transfer out beyond 100 GB/month ($0.09/GB).
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