Account Management, Billing & Support Flashcards
What AWS service let’s you manage multiple AWS Accounts with one master account and other child accounts with consolidated billing and aggregated usage pricing benefits, and pooling of reserved instances.
AWS Organizations
True or False: AWS Organizations has an API available to automate account creation and management?
True
What kind of policy can you use to manage permissions in your organization using IAM actions applied to all Users, Roles and Groups, including Root?
SCP (Service Control Policies)
What is Consolidated Billing?
In an AWS Organization, usage can be combined across all accounts to share volume pricing, and discounts in a singular bill.
What service allows for the setup and govern a secure compliant multi-account AWS Environment based on best practices?
AWS Control Tower
What are some examples of free services in AWS?
IAM
VPC
Consolidated Billing
Elastic Beanstalk
CloudFormation
Auto Scaling Groups
Free Tier
How is Compute Pricing Handled for EC2?
Number of instances
Instance Configuration
ELB Running time and data processed
Detailed Monitoring
What is the pricing model for on-demand instances?
Pay per second for Windows and Linux and per hour for other OS’s
What is the pricing model for Reserved EC2 Instances?
Up to 75% discount
1 or 3 year commitment
All upfront, partial upfront, no upfront
What is the pricing model for Spot Instances?
Up to 90% discount
Bid for unused capacity
What is the pricing model for Dedicated Host EC2 instances?
On-demand
Reservation for 1 to 3 year commitment
What is a flexible pricing model that can help you reduce your bill by up to 72% compared to On-Demand prices, in exchange for a one- or three-year hourly spend commitment?
Savings Plan
What are the three AWS Savings Plans?
EC2 Savings Plan – Up to 72% discount, commit to usage of instance families and region
Compute Savings Plan – Up to 66% discount regardless of family, region, size, OS, tenancy, and compute service
Machine Learnings Savings Plan – SageMaker
What service does an analysis using ML for optimal configurations to reduce costs and improve performance of four types of AWS resources—Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) services on AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda functions—based on your utilization data?
AWS Compute Optimizer
What service is used to estimate the cost for your solutions architecture?
AWS Pricing Calculator
What feature shows all the costs associated with the account, forecasts and month-to-date?
AWS Billing Dashboard
Where can you view the Free Tier service usage on your AWS Account?
AWS Billing Dashboard - Free Tier Dashboard
What feature allows the user to track AWS costs on a detailed level by the associated tags using the Tag Editor or at resource creation?
Cost Allocation Tags
What is the most comprehensive way to view AWS cost and usage data, including metadata about services, pricings and reservations by account and IAM?
Cost & Usage Report
What service allows you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS Costs and usage over time, at a high level, and forecast up to 12 months based on previous usage?
Cost Explorer
What feature allows you to create a budget and send alarms when costs or forecasted costs exceed budgets?
AWS Budgets
What are the 3 types of Budgets?
Usage
Cost
Reservation
What service provides high level assessments and recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices, and evaluates your account by using checks?
AWS Trusted Advisor
What are the five AWS Support Plans?
Basic – free
Developer – Spend over $29.00
Business – Spend over $100.00
Enterprise On-Ramp – Spend over $5,500
Enterprise – Spend over $15,000
What is the AWS Basic Support Plan?
24/7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers and support forums
AWS Trusted Advisor – 7 Core Checks
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
What is the AWS Developer Support Plan?
Business hours email access to Cloud Support Associate
General guidance response: less than 24 business Hours
System impaired response: less than 12 business hours
What is the AWS Business Support Plan?
24x7 phone, email, and chat access to Cloud Support Engineer
Production system impaired response: less than 4 hours
Production system down response: less than 1 hour
What is the AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan?
Access to pool of Technical Account Managers
Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews
Concierge Support Team
Business-critical system down response: less than 30 minutes
What is the AWS Enterprise Support Plan?
Dedicated Technical Account Manager
Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews
Access to a Technical Account Manager
Concierge Support Team
Business-critical system down response: less than 15 minutes
