Acccount Management Billing and support Flashcards
What is Aws Cost and Usage reports specifically used for
The most comprehensive set of cost and usage data available and you can receive reports that break down your costs by the hour or month, by product or product resource
What is Aws Cost Explorer used for
Summary answer - Aws cost allows you to manage your AWS cost and usage over time identify underutilized instances and forecast aws bills, also provides savings plan recommendations
AWS Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. Key points used to identify Underutilized instances and to forecast AWS bills
What are the benefits of using AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
Key points - TCO calculator helps to compare the cost of your applications in an on-premises or traditional hosting environment to AWS. Once you describe your on-premises or hosting environment configuration, it produces a detailed cost comparison with AWS.
TCO is comparing the cost you’re incurring on-premise vs what you would pay in the cloud(think what services would you no longer have to pay for in the cloud)
You need to document all of the costs you’re incurring today to run your IT operations.
What are AWS Budgets used for
AWS Budgets gives the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also use AWS Budgets to set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define.
What use case is Aws Snowball used for
AWS Snowball, a part of the AWS Snow Family, is a data migration and edge computing device. If you have large quantities of data you need to migrate into AWS, offline data transfer with (AWS Snowball can overcome the challenge of limited bandwidth)
What type of pricing use case does EFS(
Electronic File system) use when it comes to aws
With EFS, There is no minimum fee or set-up charge. You pay only for the storage you use, for read and write access to data stored in Infrequent Access storage classes, and any provisioned throughput
When it comes to EBS snapshots, how are they stored, and in what way would you be charged by aws
Amazon EBS Snapshots are stored incrementally, which means you are billed only for the changed blocks stored
What are some of the main functions of AWS Organizations
Summary answer - Aws organizations helps to centrally manage billing, control access and share resources across aws accounts.
Aws organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts. Using AWS Organizations, you can automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance
What are Cost allocation tags and what are some key requirements you must know to use them properly
Cost allocation tag is a label that you or AWS assigns to an AWS resource , each tag consist of one key and value, each key can have only one value and must first be activated before showing up in aws cost explorer and any cost allocation reports.
How are Cost allocation tags used to track and organize expenses
Cost allocation tags can be used to track expenses by being activated on the resources being tracked both in aws cost explorer and on cost allocation reports
What is Aws Cloudwatch used for
Amazon CloudWatch can be used to create an alarm to monitor your estimated charges
CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers
What type of service does the Aws personal health dashboard provide
AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and guidance for AWS events that might affect your environment. The Personal Health Dashboard shows recent events to help you manage active events, and shows proactive notifications so that you can plan for scheduled activities.
What type of tool is Aws Trusted Advisor and how does it operate for aws
AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides real-time guidance to help provision your resources following AWS best practices.
AWS Trusted Advisor can check Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume configurations and warns when volumes appear to be underused
Note for cost optimization *- Trusted Advisor alerts users about resources with low utilization. These new recommendations actually suggest instances that may be a better fit.
AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your AWS environment and provides best practice recommendations in five categories: Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance, Service Limits.
What level of support and benefits are you provided with on the Aws Enterprise support plan
Summary Answer: Enterprise support provides following Concierge-like service 24 x 7 Technical support Technical Account Manager(TAM) Online training with self-paced labs
AWS Enterprise Support provides customers with a concierge-like service where the main focus is helping the customer achieve their outcomes and find success in the cloud. With Enterprise Support, you get 24x7 technical support from high-quality engineers, - Assigned a Technical Account Manager)(TAM) You get programmatic access (API Access) to AWS Support Center features to create, manage, and close your support cases
What level of support is provided with the Aws Business plan
Summary answer
AWS recommends Business Support if you have production workloads on AWS and want 24x7 phone support. technical support and architectural guidance in the context of your specific use-cases. You get programmatic access
AWS recommends Business Support if you have production workloads on AWS and want 24x7 phone, email and chat access to technical support and architectural guidance in the context of your specific use-cases. You get full access to AWS Trusted Advisor Best Practice Checks. You get programmatic access (API Access) to AWS Support Center features to create, manage, and close your support cases, and operationally manage your Trusted Advisor check requests and status.
What does the Aws Basic support plan provide
The basic plan only provides access to the following: Customer Service & Communities - 24x7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers, and support forums. AWS Trusted Advisor - Access to the 7 core Trusted Advisor checks and guidance to provision your resources
When is the Aws Developer plan suggested for use
AWS recommends the Developer Support plan if you are testing or doing early development on AWS and want the ability to get email-based technical support during business hours. This plan also supports general guidance on how services can be used for various use cases, workloads, or applications
What type of service does the Aws Service health dashboard provide
AWS Service Health Dashboard publishes most up-to-the-minute information on the status and availability of all AWS services in tabular form for all Regions that AWS is present in. AWS Service Health Dashboard offers the possibility to subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of interruptions to each service.
What type of cost charges does the Simply monthly calculator provide
Summary answer - Simply monthly calculator provides detailed estimate of the monthly AWS bill.
The Simple Monthly Calculator provides an estimate of usage charges for AWS services based on certain information you provide. It helps customers and prospects estimate their monthly AWS bill more efficiently.
This calculator provides a visual interface to enter details about the AWS services that you plan to use and then it outputs a detailed estimate of the monthly AWS bill. Please see the illustration for more details:
What are reserved instances and what is the best use case for them
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) provide a significant discount (up to 72%) compared to On-Demand pricing and provide a capacity reservation when used in a specific Availability Zone.
What are On - demand instances
With On-Demand instances, you pay for compute capacity by the hour or the second depending on which instances you run. No longer-term commitments or upfront payments are needed.
On-demand: Good for users that want the low cost and flexibility of EC2 without any up-front payment or long-term commitment. Applications with short term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted
What are EC2 Spot Instances
Spot instances can be interrupted but also terminated if capacity becomes unavailable Spot Instances at prices up to 90% lower than On-Demand instances.
What is Consolidated billing
You can use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to consolidate billing and payment for multiple AWS accounts or multiple Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd (AISPL) accounts. Every organization in AWS Organizations has a master (payer) account that pays the charges of all the member (linked) accounts.
Consolidated billing has the following benefits:
One bill – You get one bill for multiple accounts.
- Easy tracking – You can track the charges across multiple accounts and download the combined cost and usage data.
- Combined usage – You can combine the usage across all accounts in the organization to share the volume pricing discounts, Reserved Instance discounts, and Savings Plans. This can result in a lower charge for your project, department, or company than with individual standalone accounts.
- No extra fee – Consolidated billing is offered at no additional cost.
Which AWS services can be reserved
AWS Services that can be reserved EC2 DynamoDB ElastiCache RDS RedShift
