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The connectivity cost is everything excluding the storage and AI costs and it is typically
$1/month per camera.
This is based on a 24/7 connection to a camera, the ability to access, manage, and watch video and receive camera events.
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Other costs, such as egress (streaming) costs, ELB, and other services are less significant.
Idle Cloud VMS
There is a 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:
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EC2
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S3
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ELB
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IAM
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Auto Scaling
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CloudWatch
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ActiveMQ
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CloudFormation
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CloudFront
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Route53 (Zone with delegated subdomain)
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SQS and SNS
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Lambda
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RDS
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Certificate Manager
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SecretManager
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SSM (System Manager Parameters Store)
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See the estimates of the minimal cost and the cost per camera in AWS first and minimal deployment and AWS production deployment sections.