Comparing bare metal server with AWS servers

Question

I was trying to do cost comparison between bare metal servers and cloud servers from AWS. I could not exactly find how to compare a bare metal server with AWS server. Short of running my own tests, are there good results published at some place that I can look at? If I have to run my own tests, then any recommendation on bench marking tools would be highly appreciated. I searched and the number of tests/benchmarks overwhelmed me. Seems like days long exercise.

Answer 1

There is an Amazon Web Services Total Cost of Operations (TCO) calculator available at http://awstcocalculator.com/     Put in some figures, then drill-down into the Calculations section for an example of costs to include (eg power, racks, software licenses).