So the higher ups here ‘cloud’, then all of a sudden it’s “Cloud! Cloud! We must do the cloud!” I have been asked to get some pricing on this.

I am totally confused on how to price with AWS EC2. I’m trying to work with this cost estimator:

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

Here’s what I have got for my physical server, that I’m trying to compare to:

• 2 sockets, 8 cores, 16 logical proc’s (3.30 GHz)
• 4.5TB in local HDD’s
• Hyper-V (stand-alone, non-clustered)
• 160GB RAM

On the above physical server, I have:

• 11 total guest VM’s running
• 2 of the 11 are running Microsoft SQL
  • 1 @ 4 virtual proc’s, w/ 24GB RAM
  • 1 @ 8 virtual proc’s, w/ 32GB RAM
• All others are 2 virtual proc’s @ 8GB RAM each, to keep things simple

So my question, how do I use this tool to get as close as possible to an apples-apples? It sounds like what I would want is Dedicated Host pricing. Since the above mentioned VM’s are always running, would I do a row for each VM to its own Dedicated Host? Just price a Dedicated Host to match (as close as possible) the physical box?

P.S. First, I would appreciate any responses that can give guidance on pricing. I don’t want to/need to hear your opinions/advice on how going to the cloud doesn’t save money, it doesn’t do this or that and the other thing. I know all that, but I need to get pricing. Second, this is exploratory and I am not going to work with a consulting company to get quotes, please don’t promote your “cloud consulting company”, you’ll only be wasting your time.