Capacity Planning Calculator

Plan your system's storage, bandwidth, and cost requirements based on user growth projections.

System Parameters

Current Users

Growth Rate (%/yr)

Time Horizon (months)

Data per User (MB)

Active User Ratio (0-1)

Requests per Active User/min

Avg Response Size (KB)

Replication Factor

Peak Traffic Multiplier

How much higher is peak traffic vs average (e.g., 3x = three times average)

User Growth

10000 userscurrent

14400 usersprojected

44% growth over 24 months

0.69 TB

Raw Data

2.06 TB

With Replication

Requests/Second

240 RPSaverage

720 RPSpeak

Bandwidth

9.6 Mbpsaverage

28.8 Mbpspeak

1,440 active users at any time

Storage$47

Bandwidth$280

Total Monthly$327

* Estimates based on AWS S3 and data transfer pricing. Does not include compute costs.

Storage Strategy:

Standard database setup with regular backups should be sufficient.

Traffic Handling:

Single server with proper monitoring should handle the load.

Cost Optimization:

Pay-as-you-go pricing is likely most cost-effective.