AWS cost estimate?

[stuomas]

I'm interested if anyone is using the asset tracker in AWS, how much is the monthly cost? (after any short-term free tiers)
It seems to use quite many of their services and their pricing calculators are not easy to understand.

Here you recommend using your own CA instead of the free one provided by AWS. I hope I misunderstood from AWS documentation, but it seems to cost $400 per month??

[coderbyheart]

I'm interested if anyone is using the asset tracker in AWS, how much is the monthly cost? (after any short-term free tiers) It seems to use quite many of their services and their pricing calculators are not easy to understand.

It's hard to give a general number, because it depends on your use case and where you produce the most requests. Many devices sending a lot of data? AWS IoT might become your cost driver. Low volume, but many queries on Timestream? Then this can become expensive.

Here you recommend using your own CA instead of the free one provided by AWS. I hope I misunderstood from AWS documentation, but it seems to cost $400 per month??

That refers to the CA certificate, which is free. I think the sentence is not helpful, and a bit misleading. Because we already do generate the certificates offline, because the project is using JiTP.

[stuomas]

Thanks for answer! Just to make sure, the setup scripts don't use this AWS service for creating a private CA? You make a local CA file (with openssl) and just register that to AWS, and it doesn't cost?

My question was more about use case "one thingy:91 attached to my cat" :)

As I understood, at least these services are used:

AWS Cloud Development Kit (no charges)
AWS IoT Core
Amazon CloudFront (always free tier probably enough)
Amazon Timestream

Based on this use case, I'd imagine IoT Core and Timestream costs cannot be many dollars per month, if even one.

[coderbyheart]

That service doesn't make a lot of sense for IoT.

And for your use-case you won't pay anything. That is all covered by the free tier.