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Account Management Billing and Support Flashcards

1
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What is AWS Organizations

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Gloabla service
Allows to manage multiple AWS accounts
The main account is the master account
Restrict account privileges using Service Control Policies (SCP)

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What are the cost benefits of AWS Organizations

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Consolidated Billing across all accounts
Pricing benefits from aggregated usage
Pooling of Reserved EC2 instances for optimal savings

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What are the three organization units (OU) of AWS Organization

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Business Unit , Environmental Unit, Project Based unit

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What is Service Control Policies (SCP)

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Allows you to Whitelist or blacklist IAM actions
Applied at the OU or Account level
Does not apply to the Master Account

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5
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What is a use case for SCP

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Restrict access to certain services

Enforce PCI compliance by explicitly disabling services

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What is AWS Organization - Consolidated Billing

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When enabled provides you with
-Combined Usage of all accounts across all AWS accounts in the organization to
share the volume pricing, Reserved Instances and Savings Plans discounts
One-Bill - get one bill for all AWS Accounts in the AWS organization

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What is AWS Control Tower

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Easy way to set up and govern a secure and compliant mult-account AWS environment based on best practices

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What are the benefits of AWS Control Tower

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Automate the setup of your environment in a few clicks
Automate ongoing policy management using guardrails
detect policy violations and remediate them
monitor compliance through an interactive dashboard

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What are the 4 pricing models in AWS

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Pay as you go - pay for what you use, remain agile, responsive, meet scale demands
Save when you reserve - minimize risks, predicatbly manage budgets, comply with long-terms requirements
Pay less by using more - volume based discounts
Pay less as AWS grows

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10
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What are the free services in AWS

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IAM
VPC
Consolidated Billing 
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Elastic Beanstalk      |
CloudFormation        |------ Yo do pay for the resources these create though 
Auto Scaling Groups |
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Compute Pricing for EC2

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Only charged for what you use 
By number of instances
Instance configuration
 -Physical capacity 
Region
OS and software 
Instance type 
instance size 
ELB running time and amount of data processed  
Detailed monitoring
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Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 On-demand instances

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Minimum of 60s

Pay per second (Linux/Windows) or per hour (other)

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Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Reserved instances

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Up to 75% discount compared to On-demand on hourly rate
1 or 3 years commitment
All upfront,partial upfront, no upfront

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Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Spot instances

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Up to 90% discount compared to On-demand on hourly rate

Bid for unused capacity

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Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Dedicated Host

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On-demand

Reservation for 1 year or 3 years commitment

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Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Savings plans

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as an alternative to save on sustained usage

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17
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Describe Lambda Pricing

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Pay per call

Pay per duration

18
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Describe ECS Compute pricing

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EC2 Launch Type model: No additional fees, you pay for AWS resources stored and created in your application

19
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Describe Fargate pricing

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Pay for VCPU and memory resources allocated to your apps in your containers

20
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Describe Storage Pricing S3

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Number and size of objects: Price can be tiered (based on volume)
Number and type of requests 
Data transfer OUT of the S3 region 
S3 Transfer Acceleration
Lifecycle transitions
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Describe Storage pricing of EBS

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Volume type (based on performance)
Storage volume in GB per month provisioned
IOPS
- General Purpose SSD: Included
Provisioned IOPS SSD: Provisioned amount in IOPS
Magnetic: Number of requests
Snapshots
-Added data cost per GB per month
Data transfer
-Outbound data transfer are tiered for volume discounts

22
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Describe RDS Pricing

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Pay per hour billing 
Databs characteristics 
 -Engine
 -Size 
 -Memory class 
Purchase type:
 -On-demand
 -Reserved instnaces (1 or 3 years) with required up-front
Backup Storage: There is no additional charge for backup storage up to 100% of your total databse storage for a region
23
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Describe CloudFront pricing

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Pricing is different across different geo regions
Aggregsted for each edge location, then applied to your bill
Data Transfer Out (volume discount)
Number of HTTP/S requests

24
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What is AWS Compute Optimizer

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Reduce costs and impoorve performance via optimal AWS resources for your workloads
Helps you choose optimal configurations and right-size your workloads
Uses Machine learning to analyze your resources configs

25
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What is AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculators

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Helps reduce TCO by reducing the need to invest in large capital expenditures
and provides a detailed report and Compares the cost of your applications in an on-premises or traditional hosting environment to AWS

26
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Describe the AWS Simply Monthly Calculator/ Pricing Calculator

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Estimate the cost for your architecture solution

27
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What are the two tools for Estimating costs in the cloud

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TCO Calculator and Simple Monthly Calculator / Pricing calculator

28
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What are Cost Allocation Tags

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track your AWS costs on a detailed level

29
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What are tags used for

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For organizing resources

Creating Resource Groups

30
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What are Cost and Usage Reports

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Deeper look into your AWS costs and usage

Contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available

31
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What is Cost Explorer

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Forcast usage up to 12 months based on previous usage

Visualize understand and manage your AWS costs and usage over time

32
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What are the three tools for Tracking costs in the cloud

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Billing Dashboard
Cost Allocation Tags
Cost and Usage Reports

33
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What is AWS Budgets

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Creates budget and sends alarms when costs exceeds the budget

34
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What are the three types of budgets

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Usage, Cost, Reservation

35
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How many SNS notifications do you get per budget

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5

36
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What is Trusted Advisor

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AWS account assessment , runs checks

Analyze your AWS accounts and provides reco on 5 categories

37
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What are the five categories that Trusted Adviosr analysis on

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Cost optimization 
Performance 
security 
Fault tolerance 
Service limits
38
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Describe the Basic Support Plan

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Customer Service and Communities - 24/7 access to customer service

AWS Trusted Adviosr - Access to the 7 core Trusted Advisor checks

AWS Personal Health Dashboard - A personlized view of the health of AWS services and alerts when your resources are impacted

39
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Describe AWS Developer Support Plan

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All Basic Support +
Business hours email access to Cloud Support Associates
Unlimited cases 1 primary contact

Case response times
General guidance < 24 business hours
System impaired < 12 business hours

40
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Describe AWS Business Support Plan (24/7)

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Intended to be used if you have production workloads
Trusted Advisor - Full set of checks + API checks
24/7 phone , email and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers
Unlimited cases / unlimited contacts
Access to infrastructure contacts

Case severity / response times 
General guidance < 24 business hours 
System impaired < 12 business hours 
production system impaired < 4 hours 
Production system down < 1 hour

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