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    Global HA Web Hosting — Cost Breakdown

    Illustrative AWS infrastructure cost dashboard for a Terraform-based static hosting architecture. Figures below are sample data for this portfolio demo, not live provider prices or customer invoices.

    Total Monthly Cost

    $97.40
    June 2026 estimate +6.7%

    CDN Bandwidth

    2.4 TB
    CloudFront data transfer +12%

    Active Services

    8
    Across 3 AWS regions

    Security Layer

    $12.00
    AWS WAF protection -8%

    Cost Distribution by Service

    Cost by Region

    Monthly Cost Trend

    Detailed Service Costs

    ServiceRegionUsageMonthly Cost
    Amazon S3
    us-east-1
    		Storage + Requests$23.50
    Amazon CloudFront
    Global (12 Edge Locations)
    		Data Transfer$42.80
    AWS Route 53
    Global
    		Hosted Zones + Queries$1.50
    AWS Certificate Manager
    Global
    		SSL/TLS CertificatesFree
    Amazon CloudWatch
    us-east-1
    		Monitoring + Alarms$8.20
    AWS WAF
    Global
    		Web ACL + Rules$12.00
    AWS Lambda
    us-east-1
    		Edge Functions$5.60
    Amazon API Gateway
    us-east-1
    		REST API Calls$3.80
    Total$97.40

    Cost Optimization Notes

    • S3 Storage: Using S3 Standard tier with lifecycle policies to transition infrequent access objects to S3 IA after 30 days.
    • CloudFront: Enabled compression and cache optimization to reduce data transfer costs by ~15%.
    • ACM: SSL certificates are provided free by AWS Certificate Manager for public certificates.
    • Lambda: Edge functions run on CloudFront to minimize origin requests and reduce latency.