Account Management Billing and Support Flashcards
What is AWS Organizations
Gloabla service
Allows to manage multiple AWS accounts
The main account is the master account
Restrict account privileges using Service Control Policies (SCP)
What are the cost benefits of AWS Organizations
Consolidated Billing across all accounts
Pricing benefits from aggregated usage
Pooling of Reserved EC2 instances for optimal savings
What are the three organization units (OU) of AWS Organization
Business Unit , Environmental Unit, Project Based unit
What is Service Control Policies (SCP)
Allows you to Whitelist or blacklist IAM actions
Applied at the OU or Account level
Does not apply to the Master Account
What is a use case for SCP
Restrict access to certain services
Enforce PCI compliance by explicitly disabling services
What is AWS Organization - Consolidated Billing
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
What is AWS Control Tower
Easy way to set up and govern a secure and compliant mult-account AWS environment based on best practices
What are the benefits of AWS Control Tower
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
What are the 4 pricing models in AWS
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
What are the free services in AWS
IAM VPC Consolidated Billing -----------------------------| Elastic Beanstalk | CloudFormation |------ Yo do pay for the resources these create though Auto Scaling Groups | -------------------------------|
Compute Pricing for EC2
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
Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 On-demand instances
Minimum of 60s
Pay per second (Linux/Windows) or per hour (other)
Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Reserved instances
Up to 75% discount compared to On-demand on hourly rate
1 or 3 years commitment
All upfront,partial upfront, no upfront
Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Spot instances
Up to 90% discount compared to On-demand on hourly rate
Bid for unused capacity
Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Dedicated Host
On-demand
Reservation for 1 year or 3 years commitment
Describe the Compute Pricing of EC2 Savings plans
as an alternative to save on sustained usage
Describe Lambda Pricing
Pay per call
Pay per duration
Describe ECS Compute pricing
EC2 Launch Type model: No additional fees, you pay for AWS resources stored and created in your application
Describe Fargate pricing
Pay for VCPU and memory resources allocated to your apps in your containers
Describe Storage Pricing S3
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
Describe Storage pricing of EBS
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
Describe RDS Pricing
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
Describe CloudFront pricing
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
What is AWS Compute Optimizer
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
What is AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculators
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
Describe the AWS Simply Monthly Calculator/ Pricing Calculator
Estimate the cost for your architecture solution
What are the two tools for Estimating costs in the cloud
TCO Calculator and Simple Monthly Calculator / Pricing calculator
What are Cost Allocation Tags
track your AWS costs on a detailed level
What are tags used for
For organizing resources
Creating Resource Groups
What are Cost and Usage Reports
Deeper look into your AWS costs and usage
Contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available
What is Cost Explorer
Forcast usage up to 12 months based on previous usage
Visualize understand and manage your AWS costs and usage over time
What are the three tools for Tracking costs in the cloud
Billing Dashboard
Cost Allocation Tags
Cost and Usage Reports
What is AWS Budgets
Creates budget and sends alarms when costs exceeds the budget
What are the three types of budgets
Usage, Cost, Reservation
How many SNS notifications do you get per budget
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What is Trusted Advisor
AWS account assessment , runs checks
Analyze your AWS accounts and provides reco on 5 categories
What are the five categories that Trusted Adviosr analysis on
Cost optimization Performance security Fault tolerance Service limits
Describe the Basic Support Plan
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
Describe AWS Developer Support Plan
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
Describe AWS Business Support Plan (24/7)
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
