Account Management, Billing, Support Flashcards

1
Q

AWS Organizations

A

Manage multiple AWS accounts

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2
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Account types in Organizations (2)

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Master
Child

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3
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Cost benefits of Organizations (3)

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Consolidated billing
Volume Discounts
Reserved EC2 Pooling

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4
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Service Control Policies used to…

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Restrict account privileges in Organizations

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5
Q

What can an API be used for in Organizations?

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Automate AWS account creation

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6
Q

Reasons to use multi-account strategy

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Per department/cost center
dev/test/prod
Regulatory restrictions
Resource isolation
Per-account service limits
Logging

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7
Q

What do SCP’s apply to?

A

Users and roles of an account

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8
Q

SCP Use case

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Restrict access to certain services/Disable services

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9
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Are SCP’s inherited?

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Yes, they apply to sub-OU’s

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10
Q

Consolidated billing

A

Combine usage
One Bill

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11
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Control Tower

A

Set up and govern secure and compliant multi-account

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12
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Control tower benefits

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Automate setup
Automate policy management
Detect policy violations
Monitor compliance

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13
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Control Tower relationship to Organizations

A

Automatically sets up Orgs and SCP’s

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14
Q

AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)

A

Share resources (like a VPC) with other AWS accounts

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15
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AWS Service Catalog

A

Authorized products defined by admins

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16
Q

AWS Pricing Models (4)

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Pricing models (Pay as you go)
Save when you reserve
Pay less by using more (volume discount)
Pay less as AWS grows

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17
Q

Free services (6)

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IAM
VPC
Elastic Beanstalk
CloudFormation
Auto Scaling Groups
Free tier

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18
Q

EC2 Pricing

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On-demand per second
Reserved (75% off)
1-3 years commitment

Spot instances (90% discount)

Dedicated Host
Savings plan

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19
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Lambda Pricing

A

Per Call
Per Durations

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20
Q

ECS Pricing (containers)

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EC2 Model

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21
Q

Fargate pricing

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Pay for vCPU and memory

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22
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S3 Pricing

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Storage class (Standard, IA, Glacier, etc.)
Number and size of objects
Number of requests
Transfer out of S3 region
S3 transfer acceleration

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23
Q

EFS pricing

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Similar to S3

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24
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EBS pricing (Block Storage)

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Volume type (performance)
Storage provisioned
IOPS
Snapshots
Data transfer out

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25
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RDS Pricing

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Per hour
Database characteristics (Engine, Size, Memory)
On-demand or reserved

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26
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RDS Storage Pricing

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Per GB
IO per month
Single vs. Multiple AZ
Data transfer out

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27
Q

CloudFront pricing

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Per region
Edge locations
Transfer out
HTTP/HTTPS Requests

28
Q

Network costs

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.02/GB public IP communication
.01/GB to private IP
.02/GB to another region
(Same AZ is cheaper)

29
Q

Savings Plan

A

Commit to sending $$$ amount per hour for 1-3 Years

30
Q

EC2 Savings Plan

A

Up to 72% Discount
Commit to usage of instance families in a region (ex C5 or M5)
AZ, Size, OS dont matter

31
Q

Compute Saving Plan

A

Up to 66% Savings Plan
EC2, Fargate, Lambda

32
Q

Machine Learning Savings plan is for which service?

A

SageMaker

33
Q

AWS Compute Optimizer

A

Reduce costs and improve performance by using ML to analyze configs and CloudWatch metrics

34
Q

AWS Compute Optimizer savings

A

Up to 25%

35
Q

AWS Pricing Calculator

A

Estimate Cloud Costs
Specific products and workloads

36
Q

Billing Dashboard

A

See monthly costs

37
Q

AWS Free Tier Dashboard

A

See free tier usage

38
Q

Cost allocation tags

A

Track costs in detail by tag

39
Q

Tag types (2)

A

AWS generated aws:
User generated user:

40
Q

Tags are used for…

A

Organizing resources (costs and groups)

41
Q

How are tags edited?

A

Tag Editor

42
Q

Cost and Usage Reports

A

Detail cost report by service used by an account and IAM users

43
Q

Cost Explorer

A

Visualize AWS costs
Custom reports
Choose a savings plan
Forecast usage up to 12 months based on previous use

44
Q

Which tool an be used to forecast costs up to 12 months?

A

Cost explorer

45
Q

Billing alarms in Cloudwatch

A

Send notifications for going over billing thresholds.

46
Q

AWS Budgets

A

Send alarms when cost exceeds budget

47
Q

AWS Budgets cost

A

2 Free, then .02/day/budget

48
Q

Cost Anomaly Detection

A

Use ML to detect unusual spends

49
Q

Service Quotas

A

CloudWatch alarms for reaching limits per service
Request quota increases

50
Q

Trusted Advisor

A

Account assessment on 5 categories

51
Q

Trusted advisor categories (5) (remember)

A

Cost optimization
Performance
Security
Fault Tolerance
Service Limits

52
Q

How many Trusted Advisor Core Checks?

A

7

53
Q

7 Core checks (list)
Basic & Developer Plan

A

S3 Bucket Perms
Security groups (Specific ports)
IAM Use (at least 1 user)
MFA on Root
No EBS public snapshots
No RDS public snapshots
Service limits

54
Q

Full Checks (5+4)
Business & Enterprise support

A

Trusted Advisor 5 categories
Set CloudWatch alarms
Programmatic access via AWS Support API

55
Q

Support Plan Pricing Plans

A

Basic

56
Q

Basic Plan cost

A

Free

57
Q

Basic support plan includes…

A

Customer Service
Communities
Basic Trusted Advisor
Personal Health Dashboard

58
Q

AWS Developer Support Plan

A

Basic
Business hours email access
Unlimited cases
1 primary contact

59
Q

AWS Developer Support Plan response time

A

General <24 hours
System impaired <12 hours

60
Q

Business Support Plan

A

Full Trusted Advisor
Support API
24/7 phone, email, chat support
Unlimited cases
Unlimited contacts
Infrastructure Event Management (additional fee)

61
Q

Business Support Plan {Pricing)

A

General guidance <24 hours
System impaired <12 hours
Prod system impaired <4 hours
Prod system down <1 hour

62
Q

AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support

A

Prod and critical workloads
Business Support Plan
Pool of TAM’s
Concierge support team
Infrastructure event management
Well-architected & ops reviews

63
Q

AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support response times

A

Prod system impaired <4 hours
Prod system down <1 hour
Business-critical system down <30 mins

64
Q

AWS Enterprise Support

A

Critical workloads
Enterprise on-ramp
Dedicated TAM

65
Q

AWS Enterprise Support response times

A

Prod system impaired <4 hours
Prod system down <1 hour
Business-critical system down <15 mins