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AWS

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The deployment uses Cloud Formation and generally, the process is automated. Cloud VMS needs the following AWS services:

  • EC2

  • S3

  • ELB

  • IAM

  • Auto Scaling

  • CloudWatch

  • ActiveMQ

  • CloudFormation

  • CloudFront

  • Route53 (Zone with delegated subdomain)

  • SQS and SNS

  • Lambda

  • RDS

  • Certificate Manager

  • SecretManager

  • SSM (System Manager Parameters Store)

  • OpenSearch

AWS cost estimation

Main cost

The main total AWS cost can be estimated as follows

total cost = connectivity cost + storage cost (optional) + AI cost (optional)

The AWS storage cost is $10/month per TB, or connectivity cost is everything excluding storage and AI costs and it is typically

  • $1/month per camera.

This is based on 24/7 connection to a camera, ability to access, manage and watch video and receive camera events.

The AWS storage cost is approximately

  • $3/month per camera for 30 days of continuous recording, or

  • $0.5/month per camera for 30 days of event recording.

The connectivity cost is everything but storage cost and is typically

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estimate is based on 1Mbps bitrate and S3 Infrequent access single zone $10/month per

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TB.

AI cost

The AI cost (object recognition) is an extra service that can be enabled and disabled per camera at any time. If it’s always enabled then it’s typically from one to a few dollars/month per camera and depends on the amount of motion.

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There is a minimal set of services that should be running regardless of connected cameras. The typical cost of an idle Cloud VMS deployed on AWS is $200/month. The cost per camera will decrease with more cameras connected to the Cloud VMS.

AWS Services

The deployment uses Cloud Formation and generally, the process is automated. Cloud VMS needs the following AWS services:

  • EC2

  • S3

  • ELB

  • IAM

  • Auto Scaling

  • CloudWatch

  • ActiveMQ

  • CloudFormation

  • CloudFront

  • Route53 (Zone with delegated subdomain)

  • SQS and SNS

  • Lambda

  • RDS

  • Certificate Manager

  • SecretManager

  • SSM (System Manager Parameters Store)

  • OpenSearch