title: amazon web services - beanstalk pricing decisions
body: <p>Looking at this page
  <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/</a>
  I get a little bit confused when reading the pricing section.  </p>
  
  <p>The pricing section mentions both S3 storage as well as elastic block store volume and I do not understand why.  Both the S3 and the EBS services seem to me to be data storage services and therefore what sense does it make to buy both?</p>
  
  <p>What I need is a web server to deploy a PHP platform and a separate database server to deploy a MySQL database linked to the platform.  The web server requires disk space to hold the actual code of the website and the website is not expected to have the need of a lot of hard disk space since the users will not upload or download a lot of content.  Most content will be generated on the fly from the database while the users navigate in the platform that I develop.</p>
  
  <p>The database server will hold a considerably sized database.  Again, for that reason, I believe I require the Amazon RDS service and such service is not listed in the pricing section of the above link.  My question here also is: if I buy the RDS server for the relational database, will I still need S3 or EBS or both to store the database data itself? I don't understand this...</p>
  
  <p>Hope you can help me...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>