Cost
As of March 2026, the cost for running this Guidance with the default settings in the US East (N. Virginia) Region is approximately $400.00 per month for processing 1,000 vehicles with moderate usage.
Note
The primary cost drivers are:
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Amazon MSK cluster (~49% of total cost)
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Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink (~27% of total cost)
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VPC and NAT Gateway (~15% of total cost)
The following table provides a sample cost breakdown for deploying this Guidance with the default parameters in the US East (N. Virginia) Region for one month.
| AWS Service | Dimensions | Cost [USD] |
|---|---|---|
|
Amazon MSK |
3 kafka.m5.large brokers, 100 GB storage each |
$194.00 |
|
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink |
10 KPUs (1 per Flink application) |
$108.00 |
|
Amazon VPC |
NAT Gateway (2 AZs), data transfer |
$45.00 |
|
AWS Lambda |
10M invocations, 512 MB memory |
$20.00 |
|
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis |
cache.t3.micro node |
$12.00 |
|
Amazon CloudFront |
100 GB data transfer |
$8.50 |
|
Amazon Location Service |
100K map tile requests, 10K geocoding requests |
$8.00 |
|
AWS IoT Core |
108M messages (1,000 vehicles × 3,600 msgs/day) |
$3.24 |
|
Amazon DynamoDB |
On-demand, 10 GB storage |
$3.50 |
|
Amazon API Gateway |
1M REST API calls per month |
$3.50 |
|
Amazon S3 |
50 GB storage, 1M requests |
$1.50 |
|
Amazon Cognito |
1,000 active users (free tier) |
$0.00 |
|
Total |
~$400.00 |
Note
Prices are subject to change. For full details, refer to the pricing webpage for each AWS service used in this Guidance.
Cost Optimization Strategies
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Use DynamoDB on-demand billing to avoid over-provisioning
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Implement S3 lifecycle policies to archive old telemetry data to S3 Glacier
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Right-size MSK broker instances based on actual throughput requirements
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Use appropriate ElastiCache node types for development vs. production environments
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Enable CloudWatch Logs retention policies to manage log storage costs
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Monitor and optimize Flink application parallelism based on workload
Cost Scaling
Costs scale primarily with:
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Number of vehicles and message volume (IoT Core, MSK, Flink)
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Data storage requirements (DynamoDB, S3)
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API request volume (API Gateway, Lambda)
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Map tile requests and geocoding operations (Location Service)
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Data transfer and CloudFront usage
For 100 vehicles: ~$250/month For 1,000 vehicles: ~$410/month For 10,000 vehicles: ~$1,200/month
We recommend creating a Budget through AWS Cost Explorer
