title: How the AWS ALB cost is calculated?
body: <p>I have an application load balancer (ALB) for a busy website in Bahrain, daily visits over 200K, yet the monthly cost of the ALB is less than $1. The instance has 1 web site with over 600K article.</p>
  
  <p>Also, I have a small ec2 for 3 websites with ALB, and the monthly cost is $10. The maximum daily visits for all websites are 10.</p>
  
  <p>So, how the bigger site ALB cost less?!</p>
  
  <p><strong>Middle East (Bahrain)</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Elastic Load Balancing - Application <strong>$0.85</strong></li>
  <li><p>USD0.0 per Hrs for <code>LoadBalancerUsage:LoadBalancing:Application</code> usage in Middle East (Bahrain) 696.000 Hrs <strong>$0.00</strong></p></li>
  <li><p>USD0.0 per LCU-Hrs for <code>LCUUsage:LoadBalancing:Application</code> usage in Middle East (Bahrain) 15.000 LCU-Hrs <strong>$0.00</strong></p></li>
  <li><p>USD0.0088 per LCU-Hrs for <code>LCUUsage:LoadBalancing:Application</code> in Middle East (Bahrain) 96.111 LCU-Hrs <strong>$0.85</strong></p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>US East (N. Virginia)</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Elastic Load Balancing - Application <strong>$9.55</strong></p></li>
  <li><p>$0.008 per used Application load balancer capacity unit-hour (or partial hour) 1.515 LCU-Hrs <strong>$0.01</strong></p></li>
  <li><p>$0.0225 per Application LoadBalancer-hour (or partial hour) 424.000 Hrs <strong>$9.54</strong></p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>