I'm looking for options to migrate one of our applications to AWS. The application currently runs on a server that has 16cores and 256GBs of Ram and I'll be moving it to a virtual machine on AWS.
If we get an R3 dedicated host with 1-year, all upfront payment, it costs $19010 in Frankfurt. On this host, we can host 1x r3.8xlarge virtual machine , which has 32 cores and 244GBs of Ram. Is this the best option? Are there any close alternatives?
I'm assuming that there are no additional costs apart from storage and networking, right?
Thanks.