AWS Cost Comparison

AWS Cost Comparison allows the user to calculate the cost of hosting the currently discovered hosts in the project in an AWS region of their choice. This is calculated based on the AWS cost sheet for the region and considers the Compute, Storage, Network, Business Support and VDI costs ( if the discovered host runs a Windows Desktop Operating System ).

Prerequisite

In order to use this feature, the "Target Cloud" for the Project should be "AWS", and it calculates the cost for the region set in "Preferred region"

View AWS Cost Comparison

• You can navigate to the AWS Cost Comparison page by clicking on "Rationalize Cost" in the DART page as shown below
• You can also navigate to the AWS Cost Comparison page by clicking on "AWS Cost Comparison" tab in the "Rationalize" page as shown below:

Understanding and using AWS Cost Comparison

• Once the hosts have been added to the project and discovered, or RVTools data imported into the project, the cost for migrating the workloads to the user desired AWS region is calculated based on the discovered hosts CPU, Memory, Operating System, Storage , etc using the specified region's cost sheet. The calculated cost is displayed in the AWS Cost Comparison page as shown below:

• You can view the approach used to calculate the cost by clicking on the "?" icon as shown below:

• This will open the following page where you can view the approach. You can expand each section to understand the details

• You can use the "Edit Details" feature to edit the costs calculated by OmniDeq, and to input the VMware costs ( pre Broadcom acquisition ) and the Revised VMware costs ( post Broadcom acquision ). The Revised VMware cost is used to calculate the savings of moving from the existing VMware environment to AWS.

• Click on "Edit Details" as shown in the image below. That will take you to the screen where you can enter the various costs as shown in the 2nd image below

• You can enter the different costs and once updated, click on the "Save changes" button as shown below

• The changes will get saved and you will receive a notification

• You will see tiles highlighting the total AWS annual costs, savings, number of hosts and the date it was updated, and the region this is calculated for as shown below

• OmniDeq identifies the instance types to use in AWS for the different hosts based on the CPU, Memory , etc. These are also used to calculate the costs. User can override the instance type and choose a different one. This will lead to a change in the cost calculated. You can change the instance type by clicking on the "Host" tab and clicking on the "Edit host details" button

• Select the desired instance type from the "Selected aws instance type" column dropdown

• Once selected, click on "Save changes"

• The changes made are saved

• Navigate back to the "AWS Cost Comparison" tab to view the updated AWS cost

• If you want to check the costs for a different AWS region, you can edit the Project properties, change the region to the one you are interested in and visit the AWS Cost Comparison page to view the costs in that region