AWS Mainframe Modernization Pricing

Committed plans are appropriate for steady-state workloads and offer significant savings over on-demand pricing. For example, committed plans are generally suitable for production environments with 24/7 consumption, while on-demand pricing can be suitable for intermittent usage, such as development and test environments. One-year and three-year commitments are available. Please contact your AWS representative for discount details.

AWS Mainframe Modernization Blu Age Runtime price is $0.31 per AWS CPU core per hour for any AWS infrastructure deployment. For AWS deployments where AWS CPU core metrics are not available (for example with AWS Fargate serverless compute), the Blu Age Runtime price is $0.31 per 2 AWS virtual CPUs per hour (or $0.155 per AWS vCPU per hour).

On-demand pricing for AWS Mainframe Modernization Blu Age Runtime
Instance Type	Pricing
M2.m6i.large	$0.31 per hour
M2.m6i.xlarge	$0.62 per hour
M2.m6i.2xlarge	$1.24 per hour
M2.m6i.4xlarge	$2.48 per hour
M2.m6i.8xlarge	$4.96 per hour
M2.m6i.16xlarge	$9.92 per hour

The same pricing applies to c6i, m6i, m5, c5, and r5 instance families.

AWS Mainframe Modernization Blu Age Transformation Center usage is priced as per the number of lines of code (LOC) converted. Billing starts only after the free tier of 120,000 LOC, at the rate of $0.103 per LOC with monthly installments (the number of installments is the duration of the project as estimated by AWS Blu Insights). There is no additional charge for re-converting the same lines of code multiple times within the same project. In case of a code refresh during the project, only the changes are charged.

For more details, please visit:
https://bluinsights.aws/docs/billing-and-usage/
https://bluinsights.aws/docs/faq-transformation-center/

AWS Mainframe Modernization Rocket Runtime (Enterprise Server, formerly a Micro Focus product) price is $5.55 per AWS CPU core per hour for any AWS infrastructure deployment. For AWS deployments where AWS CPU core metrics are not available (for example with AWS Fargate serverless compute), the Rocket Runtime price is $5.55 per 2 AWS virtual CPUs per hour (or $2.755 per AWS vCPU per hour).

On-demand pricing for AWS Mainframe Modernization Rocket Runtime
Instance Type	Pricing
M2.m6i.large	$5.55 per hour
M2.m6i.xlarge	$11.10 per hour
M2.m6i.2xlarge	$22.20 per hour
M2.m6i.4xlarge	$44.40 per hour
M2.m6i.8xlarge	$88.80 per hour

The same pricing applies to c6i, m6i, m5, c5, and r5 instance families.

AWS Mainframe Modernization Rocket Developer (Enterprise Developer, formerly a Micro Focus product) price is $2.14 per AWS CPU core per hour for any AWS infrastructure deployment. For AWS deployments where AWS CPU core metrics are not available (for example with AWS Fargate serverless compute), the Rocket Developer price is $2.14 per 2 AWS virtual CPUs per hour (or $1.07 per AWS vCPU per hour).

On-demand pricing for AWS Mainframe Modernization Rocket Developer
Instance Type	Pricing
large1	$2.14 per hour
xlarge	$4.28 per hour
2xlarge	$8.56 per hour
4xlarge	$17.12 per hour
8xlarge	$34.24 per hour

(1) Rocket Developer relying on stream large instances such as stream.memory.large or stream.compute.large has a price of $2.14 per hour except when relying on stream.standard.large which has a price of $4.28 per hour. 

AWS Mainframe Modernization Data Replication with Precisely is priced based on amount of data (GB) replicated from the source database.

On-demand pricing for AWS Mainframe Modernization Data Replication

Source type	Pricing
IBM z/OS mainframe	$60 per GB
IBM i	$30 per GB

AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer with BMC is priced based on amount of data (GB) transferred from the source mainframe to Amazon S3 storage.

On-demand pricing for AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer

Source type	Pricing
IBM z/OS mainframe	$1.30 per GB

AWS Mainframe Modernization Code Conversion with mLogica is priced as per the number of lines of code (LOC) in scope for the conversion. There is no additional charge for re-converting the same lines of code in the same environment multiple times.

On-demand pricing for AWS Mainframe Modernization Code Conversion

Conversion type	Pricing
Assembler to COBOL	$2.75 per line of code

Let’s say you have completed the migration and modernization of a mortgage management application using AWS Mainframe Modernization Blu Age automated refactoring. For maintaining, enhancing and running this application, you use AWS Mainframe Modernization Developer for Blu Age and build tools. You also use every month 8 instances of M2.m6i.large for tests and production. The 4 test instances are only started during the business hours or 8 hours a day. The 4 production instances are used 24/7. 

The bill at the end of the month using AWS Mainframe Modernization in US East (N. Virginia) would be calculated as follows:

Usage type	Hours used	Number of instances	Price	Charge for the month
Developer for Blu Age	40 hours	3	$0.00/hour	0
Blu Age build tools	24 hours	2	$0.00/hour	0
Blu Age runtime for tests M2.m6i.large instances	8 * 22 = 176 hours	4	$0.31/hour	4 * 176 * 0.31 = $218.24
Blu Age runtime for production M2.m6i.large instances	24 * 30 = 720 hours	4	$0.31/hour	4 * 720 * 0.31 = $892.80
Total Charges: $1,111.04

For the month, your AWS Mainframe Modernization service bill will be $1,111.04, a total which does not consider the AWS Free Tier.

Let’s say you are migrating the previous mortgage management application from a mainframe to AWS over a 6 months duration with 5 professionals using the tools. This application has 3 Million Lines Of Code (MLOC). For this effort, you use AWS Mainframe Modernization Blu Age analysis tool, then transformation tool, and build tools. Every month, 0.5 MLOC are transformed. You also use every month 4 instances of M2.m6i.large for tests and pre-production. These instances are only started during the business hours or 8 hours a day for project delivery. 

The bill at the end of the month (22 business days, assuming no weekend usage) using AWS Mainframe Modernization in US East (N. Virginia) would be calculated as follows:

Usage type	Usage	Number of instances	Price	Charge for the month
Blu Age analysis tool	40 hours	$0.00	0
Blu Age transformation tool	0.5 MLOC	$0.103/LOC	0.103 * 500,000 = $51,500
Blu Age build tools	24 hours	2	$0.00/hour	0
Blu Age runtime M2.m6i.large instances	8 * 22 = 176 hours	4	$2.50/hour	4 * 176 * 0.31 = $218.24
Total Charges: $51,718.24

For the month during the migration project, your AWS Mainframe Modernization service bill will be $75,394.24.

Let’s say you have migrated and modernized a parts inventory management application from a mainframe to AWS. For maintaining and enhancing the application, you use the AWS Mainframe Modernization service with 2 Rocket analyzer instances and 2 Rocket build tools. You also have 4 developers using Rocket developer large instances working business hours. You use 2 Rocket runtime M2.m6.large instances for tests during business hours. You use 2 Rocket runtime M2.m6.large instances for production 24/7.

The bill at the end of the month (22 business days; 30 days total) using AWS Mainframe Modernization in US East (N. Virginia) would be calculated as follows:

Usage type	Hours used	Number of instances	Price	Charge for the month
Rocket analyzer tool	40 hours	2	$0.00/hour	0
Rocket developer tools	8 * 22 = 176 hours	4	$2.14/hour	4 * 176 * 2.14 = $1506.56
Rocket build tools	44 hours	2	$0.00/hour	0
Rocket managed runtime test M2.m5.large instances	8 * 22 = 176 hours	2	$5.55/hour	2 * 176 * 5.55 = $1,953.60
Rocket managed runtime production M2.m5.large instances	24 * 30 = 720 hours	2	$5.55/hour	2 * 720 * 5.55 = $7,992.00
Total Charges: $11,452.16

For the month, your AWS Mainframe Modernization service bill will be $11.452.16, a total which does not consider the AWS Free Tier.