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Account Management, Billing & Support Flashcards

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AWS Organizations Properties

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  • Global service
  • Manage multiple account (master & child)
  • Cost benefits
    • consolidated billing
    • pricing from aggregate usage
    • Pooling of reserved ec12 instances
  • API is available to automate AWS account creation
  • Restrict privs using SCP (service control policies)
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SCP

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Service control policy

  • whilelist or blacklist IAM
  • Apply SCP at OU or account level
  • Doesn’t apply to master account
  • applies to all users and roles of account
  • Deny all
  • use cases
    • restrict access to certain services (can’t use EMR)
    • Enforce PCI compliance by explicitly disabling services
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Multi-account strategies

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  • Accounts per department, cost center, environment, regulatory, isolation, etc.
  • multi account vs one account multi VPC
  • use tagging for billing
  • Enable cloudtrail, send to central S3
  • Send cloudWatch logs to central logging
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AWS OU

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organizational unit

Can have multiple accounts

  • Root OU has everything
    • dev OU
    • prod OU
    • finanace OU
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Organization - consolidated billing

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  • Usage of all accounts in the org
  • share volume pricing
  • share reserved instances and savings plans
  • One bill
  • can turn off reserved instances discount sharing for any account
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AWS Control Tower

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  • govern secure multi-account environment based on best practices
  • automate set up with clicks
  • define policies using guardrails
  • Detect policy violations
  • monitor compliance
  • run on top of Organiations
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Landing Zone

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well structured set of accounts in control towerwith a home region, a couple of OUs, some audit accounts, etc.

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AWS RAM

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Resource Access Manager

  • share AWS resources with other accounts
  • share with any account or organization
  • avoid resource duplication
  • Aurora, VPC subnets, transit gateay, R53, EC3
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AWS Service Catalog

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  • Simplified portal to launch set of authorized products
  • includes virtual machines, databases, storage, etc.
  • AWS service catalog predefines these services
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Service Catalog usage

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  • define produce in CloudFormation templates
  • Portfolios are collections of products
  • IAM permissions to access portfolios for users
  • launched resources are properly configured and tagged
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What are the four pricing models?

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  • pay as you go (on-demand)
  • save when reserved
    • reserved instance for different services
  • Volume-based discounts
  • AWS drops pricing over time
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What are free services?

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  • IAM
  • VPC
  • Consolidated billing
  • Elastik beanstalk
  • CloudFormation
  • Auto scaling groups
  • Free tier (t2.micro for a year, data transfer)
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EC2 Pricing

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  • on demand pricing
    • 60s min, or by second or hour
  • reserved instances
    • up to 75% discount, 1-3 yr commit
    • all, partial, or no upfront payment
  • spot
    • up to 90% discount
    • bid for unused capacity
  • dedicated host
    • on demand
    • 1 or 3 year reservation
  • savings plans if sustained usage
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Lambda pricing

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Pay per call and per duration

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ECS pricing

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No additional fees, but pay for AWS resources storage and created in the application

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Fargate pricing

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Pay for vCPU and memory in containers

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S3 pricing

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  • S3 standard, infrequent, One-Zone IA, Intelligent tiering, Glacier, and Glacier deep archive
  • number and size of objects (tiered on volume)
  • Number and type of requests
  • data transfer out of S3 region
  • S3 transfer acceleration (if used)
  • Lifecycle transitions

EFS is similar (pay per use, has infrequent access, & lifecycle rules)

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EBS pricing

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  • volume type
  • storage volume (GB/month)
  • IOPS (general purpose, provisioned, magentic)
  • snapshots
  • data transfer
    • outbound cost
    • inbound is free
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RDS pricing

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  • per hour billing
  • database characteristics
    • engine
    • size
    • memory class
  • purchase time (on demand, reserved)
  • Backup storage
  • number of input/output requests/month
  • Single vs multiple AZ
  • outbound transfer tiered, inbound is free
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AWS CloudFront Pricing

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  • different based on region
  • aggregated at edge locations
  • pay for data transfer out, not in
  • Number of HTTP/HTTPS requests
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Networking Costs in AWS per GB

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  • inbound generally free
  • use of public network for AZ to AZ gets charges, less if using private IP
  • interregion cost
  • use same AZ to maximize savings
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AWS Savings Plan

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  • Commit certain $$ amount/hour for 1 or 3 years
  • easiest way to set up long term commitments
  • EC2 savings plan
    • up to 72% discount
    • commit to usage of individual instance families in a region
    • regardless of AZ or tenancy
    • all upfront, partial, or no upfront
  • Computer savings plan
    • up to 66% discount
    • regardless of family, region, size, os, etc.
    • EC2, fargate, lambda,
  • Machine learning savings plan (SageMaker)
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AWS Compute Optimizer

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  • reduce costs and improve performance by recommending optimal resources for workload
  • Uses ML to analys workload and checks CloudWatch
  • EC2, Autoscaling groups, EBS, Lambda
  • Lower costs by 25%
  • Export recommendations to S3
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Billing and Costing Tools

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  • Estimating costs
    • pricing calculator
  • Tracking costs
    • Billing dashboard
    • Cost allocation tags
    • Cost and Usage reports
    • Cost explorer
  • Monitoring
    • Billing alarms
    • budgets
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AWS Pricing Calculator

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https://calculator.aws

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Cost Allocation Tags

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  • Track AWS costs on detailed level
  • AWS generated tags
    • automatically applied to created resources
    • starts with prefix aws:
  • user defined tags
    • starts with prefix user:
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AWS Cost Explorer

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  • Forecast usage up to 12 months based on prior usage
  • visualize AWS cost and usage over time
  • Create custom reports
  • Choose best savings plan
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AWS Resource Groups

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  • Create, maintain, and view resources with common tags
  • manage using tag editor
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CloudWatch billing alarms

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  • billing data stored in us-east-1
  • data is for worldwide AWS cost
  • actual, not projected
  • simple alarm
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AWS Budgets

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  • Create and send alarms
  • Usage, Cost, Reservation, Savings Plans
  • For RIs
    • track ultilization
    • support EC2, elastichache, RDS, redshift
  • 5 SNS notifications per budget
  • filter by service, tag, etc.
  • 2 budgets free, then 0.02 per day per budget
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Cost Anomaly Detection

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  • Monitor usage with ML
  • You don’t have to define anything
  • Send anomaly detection report with root cause
  • Notifications through SNS per event, or daily/weekly
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Service Quotas

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  • Notify when you are close to quota threshold
  • CloudWatch alarms on the quotas console
  • Example: Lambda concurrent executions
  • request a quota increase or shutdown resource before limit is hit
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Trusted Advisor

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  • Nothing to install
  • Analyze on 6 categories
    • Cost optimization
    • performance
    • security
    • fault tolerance
    • service limits
    • operational excellence
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AWS Basic Support

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  • Customer service & communities, 24x7 access to CS, documentation, forums
  • Trusted advisor
  • Personal health dashboard
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AWS Developer Support Plan

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  • Basic support +
  • Business hours emial access to cloud support associates
  • Unlimited cases, 1 primary contact
  • general guidance < 24 business hr
  • system impair < 12 business hours
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AWS Business Support Plan

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  • Production workload
  • Full trusted advisor checks
    24x7 phone, email, chat access to cloud support engineers
  • unlimited cases, unlimited contacts
  • Prod impaired < 4hr
  • prod sysrtem down < 1 hr
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AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan

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Business Support Plan +
* Access to TAM
* Concierge support team for billing and accout best practices
* Infrastructure event management, WAF
* Business critical system < 30 minutes

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Enterprise Support Plan

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Business Support Plan +
* Dedicatd TAM
* Concierge support team for billing and account best practices
* Infrastructure event management, WAF
* Business critical system < 15 minutes

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