Hidden Cost Analyzer

Cloud Tax Calculator

See the real cost of AWS networking. Most people focus on compute, but the killer is the data transfer tax.

EKS Scaling Limit Warning

AWS EKS has a default limit of 100 nodes per cluster. Vanilla Kubernetes (like DurianLAB) supports up to 5,000 nodes. For large workloads, EKS may require quota increases or multiple clusters.

Your Workload
$ GB/mo
0 GB 5 TB
GB/mo
0 GB 2 TB
calls
0 500K
Each pod spin-up ≈ 5-10 CloudWatch API calls
nodes
LBs
$0.0225/hr each (~$16.20/mo)
GB/mo
$0.008/GB processed per LCU
GB/mo
$0.08/GB/mo
GB/mo
$0.50/GB ingested
AWS Total Monthly Cost
$0.00
EKS Control Plane $0.00
EC2 Nodes (t3.large: 2 vCPU, 8GB RAM x 3) $0.00
NAT Gateway (Idle) $0.00
Hidden Networking Tax
$0.00
DurianLAB Bare Metal Solution
$0.00
High-Spec Metal Node (64GB RAM, 16 vCPU = 8x t3.large) $80.00
Load Balancer (Self-hosted) $0.00
Logging (Loki + Grafana, 6mo retention) $0.00
Local NVMe Storage (1TB SSD included) $0.00
Bandwidth (10TB included) $0.00
NAT & Egress $0.00
Internal Traffic $0.00
API Calls $0.00
Your Monthly Savings
$0.00
0% savings
NAT "Double-Dip"
You pay $0.045 for NAT processing plus $0.09 for egress. That's $0.135/GB just to leave the cluster.
$0.00/mo
Multi-AZ "Internal" Tax
Data moving between AZs costs $0.01/GB. For high-speed CI, internal traffic often exceeds external.
$0.00/mo
API Calls "Ghost Fee"
Every pod spin-up, service update, and LoadBalancer change triggers AWS CloudWatch API calls. At $0.01/million calls, heavy CI/CD adds up quickly.
$0.00/mo
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