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Discussion on: DynamoDB Cheatsheet – Everything you need to know about Dynamo DB for the 2020 AWS Certified Developer Associate Certification

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turningpro

What's the cheapest setup when starting out? I am looking for a hosted mongodb solution to store data simply.

Amazon pricing is confusing and I am looking for 5-10 USD/month solutions for the db.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

AWS has a service called DocumentDB however at its lowest price point it is currently 200 USD per month. If you want to use MongoDB instead go with MongoDB Atlas. That can deploy to AWS as an EC2 instance and it will make use of free tier or I believe 2 GB of ram will be around ~8 USD.

Whenever you see an hourly cost just times it by 730 to get the monthly cost. eg.

0.012/hr * 730 = 8.76