Account Management, Billing & Support Flashcards
1
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AWS Organizations
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- manage multiple AWS accounts
- Restrict account privileges using Service Control Policies (SCP)
2
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Multi Account Strategies
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- group accounts to have separate per-account service limits, isolated account for logging
- per department, per dev/test/prod, …
3
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Service Control Policies (SCP)
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- Whitelist or blacklist IAM actions
- applied to all the Users and Roles of the Account
4
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AWS Control Tower
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- set up and govern a secure and compliant multi-account AWS environment
5
Q
AWS Service Catalog
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- self-service portal to launch a set of
authorized products pre-defined by admins
6
Q
Free services & free tier
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- IAM, VPC, Consolidated Billing, EC2 (for a year), S3, EBS, ELB, AWS Data transfer
6
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Pricing Models in AWS
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- 4 pricing models
- Pay as you go
- Save when you reserve
- Pay less by using more
- Pay less as AWS grows
7
Q
Savings Plan
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- Commit certain amount per hour for 1 or 3 years
- easier for longterm commitment
- EC2 Savings Plan or Compute Savings Plan (regardless of family, region, compute options, …)
8
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AWS Compute Optimizer
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- Reduce costs and improve performance by recommending optimal AWS resources for workload
9
Q
AWS Pricing Calculator
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- Estimate cost for solution architecture
10
Q
AWS Billing Dashboard
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- high level overview + free tier dashboard
11
Q
AWS Free Tier Dashboard
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- all free tier services by usage
12
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Cost Allocation Tags
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- track AWS costs on a detailed level
- generated tags or User-defined tags
13
Q
Cost and Usage Reports
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- most comprehensive billing dataset
14
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Cost Explorer
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- View current usage (detailed) and forecast usage (up to 12 month)
15
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Billing Alarms in CloudWatch
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- stored in CloudWatch us-east-1
- track overall and per-service billing
16
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AWS Budgets
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- Create budget and send alarms when costs exceeds the budget
17
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AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
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- detect unusual spends using ML
18
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AWS Service Quotas
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- notify when close to service quota threshold
19
Q
Trusted Advisor
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- to get insights
- Support Plan adapted to your needs
20
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Basic Support plan
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- Customer Service & Communities
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard
21
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Developer Support plan
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- all from basic
- Business hours email access
- response for General guidance and System impaired
22
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Business Support Plan
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- for production workloads
- 24x7 phone, email, and chat access
- Infrastructure Event Management for additional fee
- response for production impaired/down
23
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AWS Enterprise Support Plan
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- for mission critical workloads
- All of Business Support Plan
- designated Technical Account Manager (TAM)
- Concierge Support Team
- AWS Incident Detection and Response
24
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AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan
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- production or business critical workloads
- NO Incident Detection and Response
