💰 Cost Analysis
AWS Cost Breakdown & Free Tier Optimization
Leveraging AWS Free Tier for 80%+ cost savings — production-ready MVP at minimal operational cost
AWS Service Tier Usage Estimate Monthly Cost Annual Cost
🧠 Amazon Bedrock
Pay-per-use ~500 requests/day · Claude 3.5 + Haiku $25–50 $300–600
🔊 Amazon Polly
Free Tier 5M chars/mo free · Neural Kajal voice $0 $0 (yr 1)
🎤 Amazon Transcribe
Free Tier 60 mins/mo free · 10 Indian languages $0 $0 (yr 1)
🗄️ Amazon RDS
Free Tier db.t3.micro · 20GB SSD · PostgreSQL 16 $0 $0 (yr 1)
☁️ Amazon EC2
Free Tier t2.micro · 750 hrs/mo · Ubuntu $0 $0 (yr 1)
🪣 Amazon S3
Free Tier 5GB storage · Temp voice files · Auto-cleanup $0 $0 (yr 1)
🌐 External APIs
Low Cost OpenWeatherMap · Groq · Gemini (free tiers) $0–5 $0–60
Estimated Total Monthly Cost
MVP stage with AWS Free Tier + pay-per-use AI
$25 – $55/mo
Cost Distribution
$40
Free Tier (45%)
Bedrock AI (25%)
Compute (15%)
Storage (10%)
APIs (5%)
💡 Free Tier Savings
EC2 (t2.micro)–$8.50/mo
RDS (db.t3.micro)–$12.50/mo
Polly (5M chars)–$16.00/mo
Transcribe (60 min)–$1.44/mo
S3 (5GB)–$0.12/mo
Total Saved ~$38.56/mo
Scale Projections
1K Users
$55
10K Users
$200
100K Users
$850