Operational Cost of OneLens

This page highlights the cost implicated with using key OneLens features. To begin with, here is a quick summary of cost components, structured in a way to help you estimate based on your own AWS infrastructure.

Feature	Unit of Usage	Estimated Cost
Cost Optimization Policies	~10000 Resources	~$0.7 per day
Cost Reporting	100 GB CUR	~$2.30 per month
Automated Remediation	1 runbook execution (after free tier)	~$0.31 per execution
Kubernetes Agent	Monitoring 500 pods	~$35.94 per month
EKS Split Allocation	10,000 pods	~$2.73 per month

These are illustrative estimates. Actual cost may vary based on your workloads and AWS pricing region.

For general understanding, the simplified version of OneLens that is without automated remediation and K8 Agent, the cost will be less than $30/month.

The remaining cost is highly variable:

• Remediations: It depends on the number of runs you execute.

• Kubernetes Agent: It varies based on the number of pods you run simultaneously.

The sections below breaks down where charges may apply, and how they’re calculated:

Cost Optimization Policies

OneLens cost optimization policies targets to find cost optimization opportunities in your AWS resources with 3 types of datasets:

1. Resource metadata that tells the resource configuration

2. Resource metrics relevant to policy evaluation

3. Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data

Few Examples to Understand This Better

• Evaluating GP2 EBS volumes for migration to GP3, and identifying EC2 instances suited for Graviton, both rely entirely on resource configuration.

• Evaluating underutilized instance in EC2, RDS, MSK requires resource configuration and metrics data.

• Finding idle resources will combine resource configuration, metrics and cost data.

Understanding Cost for Resource and Metric Data Extraction

OneLens leverages the official AWS SDK to collect both resource and metric cost data. Currently, it onboarded 15 AWS services and gathers only the metadata and metrics related to these specific services.

Retrieving resource metadata is entirely free. However, the cost is incurred in getting the metrics information. OneLens collect CloudWatch metrics using the GetMetricData API, typically charged at $.01 for 1000 API calls.

Costs are primarily driven by the number of API calls, calculated using the following formula:

Total API Calls per day = Σ (#Metrics × Resources)

Where:

• Metrics: The number of CloudWatch metrics collected per resource (varies by service).

• Resource Count: The number of resources available in your accounts for each service.

NOTE

The cost of extracting metrics does not depend on your Cloud bill but actual number of resources under the services OneLens monitor.

For instance, a small bill of $50K/year bill may have 1 million resources, leading to high cost. Whereas, a $10M/year account may have a few resources (such as costly GPU machines).

Sample Estimate

For simplicity, lets assume you have 10000 EC2 instances and 100 resources across 14 other services we observe. The table below simplifies the calculations for this infrastructure:

Service (Namespace)	# Metrics	# Resources	API Calls/Day	Cost/Day ($)
AWS/EC2	7	10,000	70,000	0.70
AWS/RDS	6	100	600	0.006
AWS/DynamoDB	3	100	300	0.003
AWS/ElastiCache	27	100	2,700	0.027
AWS/ApplicationELB	1	100	100	0.001
AWS/NetworkELB	1	100	100	0.001
AWS/GatewayELB	1	100	100	0.001
AWS/PrivateLinkEndpoints	1	100	100	0.001
AWS/Redshift	2	100	200	0.002
AWS/ES	13	100	1,300	0.013
AWS/S3	3	100	300	0.003
CWAgent	2	100	200	0.002
AWS/Lambda	4	100	400	0.004
LambdaInsights	1	100	100	0.001
AWS/NATGateway	5	100	500	0.005
Total	77		76,000	0.76

Cost Reporting

The cost you incur here is for storing the Cost and Usage Report (CUR) in your S3 bucket. You are charged for the storage of the CUR report before OneLens ingests the data for analysis and provides granular insights.

Cost Estimate Based on Storage Size

Storage Size	Approx. Cost per Month
100 GB -500 GB	$2.30 - $11.50
500GB – 1 TB	$11.50 - $23.00
1 TB – 2 TB	$23.00 - $46.00

The AWS cost pricing for storage is based on the region where the bucket is stored. To get the exact cost as per your region, head to AWS S3 pricing.

Automated Remediation

When automated remediation is enabled, you are charged based on the AWS Systems Manager services used during runbook execution via Change Manager and Systems Manager Automation.

Charges Based on AWS Pricing

Components	Cost	Free Tier Limits
Change Request	$0.296 per request	30 days free trial per new account
Automation Steps	$0.002	Upto 100,000 steps/month
Script Duration	$0.00003 per second	Upto 5,000 seconds/month

NOTE : Charges apply after exceeding the free tier limits.

Estimate Example: Cost for running EBS volumes migration from gp2 to gp3 runbook

After exhausting your free tier, here’s the breakdown of the charges for a runbook called migrating EBS volumes from gp2 to gp3:

Component	Units	Price Per Unit	Total Cost
Change Request	1 request	$0.296	$0.296
Automation Steps	7 steps	$0.002	$0.014
Script Duration	1-5 seconds	$0.00003	$0.00003 - $0.00015
Total	-	-	$0.31003 - $0.31015

K8s Visibility and Optimization

Cost Associated with Agent

The OneLens agent runs as a set of lightweight pods within the cluster. These pods monitor container-level metrics, resource limits, and usage trends. The cost structure is mainly influenced by the number of pods in the cluster.

Agent Cost based on Number of Pods

The agent incurs a variable cost per cluster, based on pod count:

Cluster Size (Pods)	CPU (Cores)	Memory (GB)	Total Monthly Cost ($)
< 100	0.237	1.33	$17.98
100-499	0.386	1.92	$35.94
500-999	0.587	3.70	$35.94
1000-1499	0.696	5.47	$71.88
1500-2000	0.805	7.25	$99.00

Refer to the Agent Setup for more details on how the agent works and how to deploy it.

Additional Cost for Split Allocation in EKS

You may incur an estimated $2.73/month per 10,000 pods due to increased CUR data size and processing overhead.

Refer to the Split Allocation Setup Guide for steps to enable this option and understand its cost implications.