How much does it cost to run JIRA and Confluence in Amazon EC2.

[mike_neck]

Hi, I'm mike_neck.

I'm thinking about installing and running JIRA and Confluence in Amazon EC2.

But I have one question about cost.

Could anyone share cost example for running JIRA and Confluence on Amazon EC2.

I'm thinking to run in the condition as bellow.

• The number of user will be up to 10.
• Access JIRA and Confluence about 16 hours a day.

[Andrew Frayling · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike,

I cannot speak from personal experience, but looking at server specs I would suggest that you would be looking at either 2 x Small instances or 1 x Medium instance - http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ - as running both Confluence and JIRA on a single Small instance is likely to mean that they will both run very slowly.

Using the calculator at http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html the prices for 2 x Small or 1 x Medium come out the same so you would be looking at:

On Demand Instances:

• Approx $78 per month
• Total $936 for 12 months

Reserved Instances:

• $320 up front cost for 1 year term
• Approx $24 per month
• Total $608 for 12 months

So Reserved Instances (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/) would be a lot cheaper than On Demand Instances.

On top of that you just need the $20 ($10 each) for 10 user licenses for Confluence and JIRA.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.

[mike_neck]

Hi Andrew

Thunk you very much.

Your answer helps me a lot!

I think this is very useful answer for someone to start a new business.

mike.

[Andrew Frayling]

Glad it helped.

Should also have said those figures are for Linux. If you prefer Windows it's more expensive:

On Demand

• Approx $112 per month
• Total $1344 for 12 months

Reserved Instances:

• $320 up front cost for 1 year term
• Approx $43 per month
• Total $836 for 12 months

If that's all the info you need could you mark my answer as correct please?

Thanks,

Andrew.

[Javier Salvay]

Hi guys, when you said "On demand", are you refering to JIRA On Demand Instances?

[William Crighton [CCC]]

nope - they are talking about the amazon pricing model for the servers which is based on how much money you give them at the start. On-Demand is the lowest up front cost ($0) but ends up costing about 30% more over 1-3 years. 3 years up front is...the cheapest. One thing the post answer seems to have missed is the extra cost for disk space and a database, which is where Amazon seems (imsho) to 'hit' you with the fees, and the area with the least "here's what to do" instructions. Still, if you want a tier 1 cloud provider - you go with Amazon/EC2. -wc