Hosting and Billing Costs

[HiGregory]

What are the hosting costs for a solution like this on AWS currently per month? How can Code for South Florida handle those costs to keep this project alive and sustained.

[krysttian]

Below is the aws cost explorer, I'd say this is accurate to the project within 1-2 dollars or so. More accurate billing would require improved tagging.

In addition to the above we have:
Twilio (phone number is $1.00 per month + sms messages which would be 0.0075 per message)
API's: Miami-Dade charges for their bulk data services (so do most other counties)
https://www2.miami-dadeclerk.com/Developers/
"The costs are dependent on the type of service and are as follows: Access to bulk data files through FTP - $80.00 per folder per month with payment required in advance. Access to Official Records images file through FTP - $420.00 per month. Use of APIs - $0.05 per unit. One unit per request from your pre-paid balance."
The API costs is where things can get out of hand I imagine. Currently I am using browards DL checker page which is free, but if they put a captcha there then the service is not longer functional as it is now.

[HiGregory]

Thanks for this @krysttian, forgot to say it was helpful in understanding self-deployment and hosting in other areas.