Account Management Billing and Support

Question 1

What is AWS Organizations

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What are the cost benefits of AWS Organizations

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Business Unit , Environmental Unit, Project Based unit

Question 4

What is Service Control Policies (SCP)

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is a use case for SCP

Answer 5

Restrict access to certain services

Enforce PCI compliance by explicitly disabling services

Question 6

What is AWS Organization - Consolidated Billing

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What is AWS Control Tower

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What are the benefits of AWS Control Tower

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What are the 4 pricing models in AWS

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What are the free services in AWS

Answer 10

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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Question 11

Compute Pricing for EC2

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 On-demand instances

Answer 12

Minimum of 60s

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

Question 13

Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Reserved instances

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Spot instances

Answer 14

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

Bid for unused capacity

Question 15

Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Dedicated Host

Answer 15

On-demand

Reservation for 1 year or 3 years commitment

Question 16

Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Savings plans

Answer 16

as an alternative to save on sustained usage

Question 17

Describe Lambda Pricing

Answer 17

Pay per call

Pay per duration

Question 18

Describe ECS Compute pricing

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Describe Fargate pricing

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Describe Storage Pricing S3

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Describe Storage pricing of EBS

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Describe RDS Pricing

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Describe CloudFront pricing

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What is AWS Compute Optimizer

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What is AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculators

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Describe the AWS Simply Monthly Calculator/ Pricing Calculator

Answer 26

Estimate the cost for your architecture solution

Question 27

What are the two tools for Estimating costs in the cloud

Answer 27

TCO Calculator and Simple Monthly Calculator / Pricing calculator

Question 28

What are Cost Allocation Tags

Answer 28

track your AWS costs on a detailed level

Question 29

What are tags used for

Answer 29

For organizing resources | Creating Resource Groups

Question 30

What are Cost and Usage Reports

Answer 30

Deeper look into your AWS costs and usage | Contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available

Question 31

What is Cost Explorer

Answer 31

Forcast usage up to 12 months based on previous usage | Visualize understand and manage your AWS costs and usage over time

Question 32

What are the three tools for Tracking costs in the cloud

Answer 32

Billing Dashboard Cost Allocation Tags Cost and Usage Reports

Question 33

What is AWS Budgets

Answer 33

Creates budget and sends alarms when costs exceeds the budget

Question 34

What are the three types of budgets

Answer 34

Usage, Cost, Reservation

Question 35

How many SNS notifications do you get per budget

Answer 35

5

Question 36

What is Trusted Advisor

Answer 36

AWS account assessment , runs checks | Analyze your AWS accounts and provides reco on 5 categories

Question 37

What are the five categories that Trusted Adviosr analysis on

Answer 37

``` Cost optimization Performance security Fault tolerance Service limits ```

Question 38

Describe the Basic Support Plan

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Describe AWS Developer Support Plan

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Describe AWS Business Support Plan (24/7)

Answer 40

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 ```