Classic 3-Tier Web Architecture

The foundational blueprint for monolithic or traditionally scaled web applications using VMs and relational databases.

Monthly Comparison

Cheapest match per component

Pricing Model

PAYG shows monthly on-demand cost. Yearly are committed-use discounts.

Region

Workload Scale

Peak Concurrent UsersNaN users

10010,000

Database StorageNaN GB

502,000

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Serverless Web Application

A scalable, low-maintenance backend without provisioning servers. Perfect for event-driven web and mobile backends.

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Real-time Streaming Analytics

A highly demanded architecture for processing IoT telemetry, clickstreams, or financial data in real time.

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E-Commerce Microservices Stack

A resilient, decoupled architecture designed for high availability, fast product lookups, and fault tolerance.

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ML Model Training & Hosting

A heavy-compute pipeline designed for MLOps, training custom models, and serving them via APIs.

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Kubernetes-Native App Platform

Cloud-native platform using managed Kubernetes for containerized microservices, persistent block storage for stateful workloads, a managed relational database, and a load balancer for traffic ingress.

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HPC / Scientific Computing

High-performance computing cluster for scientific simulations, genomics, financial modeling, or any massively parallel workload requiring dedicated HPC instances and fast shared file storage.

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SaaS / PaaS Application

Fully managed application platform that eliminates infrastructure overhead. Combines PaaS app hosting with a managed relational database and object storage — ideal for SaaS products and internal tools.

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Data Warehouse & BI Analytics

A centralized data repository coupled with an analytics engine and BI compute nodes for large-scale reporting and insights.

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Disaster Recovery (Warm Standby)

A scaled-down replica of your production environment kept running in a secondary region, ready to scale up and take over during a primary-region outage. Includes standby compute, a replicated database, cross-region backups, and failover routing.

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Content & Media Platform

A platform for storing, transcoding, and delivering video and image content at scale. Combines a transcoding compute fleet, an object-storage media library, a metadata database for catalog lookups, and a delivery endpoint for distribution.

Disclaimer: This calculator is conceptual and designed for comparison purposes. The algorithm auto-selects the cheapest matching general-purpose infrastructure components available in our database that satisfy the raw memory and compute minimums derived from your scale parameters. It does not account for licensing, egress fees, custom integrations, or platform limitations. Consult official provider documentation for workload sizing. Please consult the Terms of Use for more information regarding data completeness and coverage.