Account Management, Billing, and Support Flashcards
Tool that recommends compute resource optimizations to reduce cost
Compute Optimizer
Tool that allows you to estimate the cost of services on AWS
Pricing Calculator
Dashboard that offers a high level overview as well as info about Free Tier services
Billing Dashboard
Easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time; also supports forecasting
Cost Explorer
Contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data available; exported as CSV files
Cost and Usage Reports
Tool that gives the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount
AWS Budgets
Tool that analyzes your AWS accounts and provides recommendations on 5 categories
AWS Trusted Advisor
The five categories that AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations about
- Cost Optimization
- Performance
- Security
- Fault Tolerance
- Service Limits
The BASIC and DEVELOPER support plans for Trusted Advisor perform 7 core checks. What are they?
S3 Bucket Permissions
Security Groups - Specific Ports Unrestricted
IAM Use (one IAM user minimum)
MFA on Root Account
EBS Public Snapshots
RDS Public Snapshots
Service Limits
Tool that helps you identify the optimal AWS resource configurations, such as Amazon EC2 instance types, Amazon EBS volume configurations, EC2 Auto Scaling Groups, and AWS Lambda function memory sizes, using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics
Compute Optimizer
What are the two ways sellers can deliver software to customers on the AWS Marketplace
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) or Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings
How can Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances be shared across multiple AWS accounts?
AWS Organizations consolidated billing
Which AWS service or feature allows a company to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time?
AWS Cost Explorer
