Account Management, Billing, Support Flashcards
AWS Organizations
Manage multiple AWS accounts
Account types in Organizations (2)
Master
Child
Cost benefits of Organizations (3)
Consolidated billing
Volume Discounts
Reserved EC2 Pooling
Service Control Policies used to…
Restrict account privileges in Organizations
What can an API be used for in Organizations?
Automate AWS account creation
Reasons to use multi-account strategy
Per department/cost center
dev/test/prod
Regulatory restrictions
Resource isolation
Per-account service limits
Logging
What do SCP’s apply to?
Users and roles of an account
SCP Use case
Restrict access to certain services/Disable services
Are SCP’s inherited?
Yes, they apply to sub-OU’s
Consolidated billing
Combine usage
One Bill
Control Tower
Set up and govern secure and compliant multi-account
Control tower benefits
Automate setup
Automate policy management
Detect policy violations
Monitor compliance
Control Tower relationship to Organizations
Automatically sets up Orgs and SCP’s
AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)
Share resources (like a VPC) with other AWS accounts
AWS Service Catalog
Authorized products defined by admins
AWS Pricing Models (4)
Pricing models (Pay as you go)
Save when you reserve
Pay less by using more (volume discount)
Pay less as AWS grows
Free services (6)
IAM
VPC
Elastic Beanstalk
CloudFormation
Auto Scaling Groups
Free tier
EC2 Pricing
On-demand per second
Reserved (75% off)
1-3 years commitment
Spot instances (90% discount)
Dedicated Host
Savings plan
Lambda Pricing
Per Call
Per Durations
ECS Pricing (containers)
EC2 Model
Fargate pricing
Pay for vCPU and memory
S3 Pricing
Storage class (Standard, IA, Glacier, etc.)
Number and size of objects
Number of requests
Transfer out of S3 region
S3 transfer acceleration
EFS pricing
Similar to S3
EBS pricing (Block Storage)
Volume type (performance)
Storage provisioned
IOPS
Snapshots
Data transfer out
RDS Pricing
Per hour
Database characteristics (Engine, Size, Memory)
On-demand or reserved
RDS Storage Pricing
Per GB
IO per month
Single vs. Multiple AZ
Data transfer out