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Cost Estimation

The /costEstimation resource collection allows you to calculate the estimated monthly cost of using AWS resources to protect EC2 instances. The estimated cost is available if you specified the backup schedule in backup policy settings.

For more information on cost estimation, see the Veeam Backup for AWS User Guide, section Creating Backup Policies.

Collection URL

The resource collection is located at the following URL:

https://<hostname>:<port>/api/v1/costEstimation

Cost EstimationCollection Representation

{

 "totalCount": 1,

 "items": [

   {

     "virtualMachineId": "d7b9e26d-1980-4dbb-baf3-5534fe5c8dd8",

     "virtualMachineName": "2016abor2",

     "snapshotCost": 0.952066962,

     "replicaCost": 0,

     "backupCost": 0,

     "trafficCost": 0,

     "transactionCost": 0,

     "totalCost": 0.952066962

   }

 ],

 "isEmpty": false,

 "totalSnapshotCost": 0.952066962,

 "totalReplicaCost": 0,

 "totalBackupCost": 0,

 "totalTrafficCost": 0,

 "totalTransactionCost": 0,

 "totalCost": 0.952066962,

 "_links": [

   {

     "method": "GET",

     "rel": "self",

     "href": "https://135.169.170.192:11005/api/v1/costEstimation"

   }

 ]

}

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