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Account Management, Billing & support Section Flashcards

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ACCOUNT BEST PRACTICES

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Organization

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Operate multiple accounts

  • Global service
  • Consolidated billing: single payment, Combined usage, to share the volumes pricing, reserved instances and saving plans discounts
  • Pooling of reserved EC2 instance for optimal saving
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SCP ( service control police)

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use to restrict account power

  • Whitelist or blacklist IAM action
  • Applied at the OU or Account level
  • Must have an explicit allow ( does not allow anything by default)
  • Which tool allows you to centrally manage all users and roles permissions in your organization?
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SCP usecase

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  • Restrict access to certain service (EX can’t use emr )

- Enforce PCI compliance by explicitly disabling service

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AWS control tower

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easily setup multiple accounts with best-practices

  • set up and govern a secure and compliant multi-account AWS environment
  • Benefits:
    Automate the setup of your environment in a few click
    Automate ongoing policy management using guardrails
    Detect policy violation and remediate them
    Monitor compliance through an interactive dashboard

You would like to automatically set up and govern a secure multi-account AWS environment with best practices for your organization. Which AWS tool can you use?

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Use tags & cost cost allocation tags

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for easy management & billing

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IAM guidelines

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MFA, least- privilege, password policy, password rotation

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Config

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to record all resources configuration & compliance over time

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Cloudformation

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To deploy stacks across account and region

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Trusted Advisor

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To get insights, support plan adapted to your needs

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S3 or Cloudwatch logs

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Send service logs and Access logs

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Cloudtrail

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To record API calls made within your account

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if your account is compromise:

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change the root password, delete and rotate all the AWS support

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Billing and Costing Tools

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Compute optimizer

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Recommends resources configuration to reduce cost

  • Uses MAchine Learning to analyze your resource configuration and their utilization cloudwatch metrics
  • Reduce costs and improve performance
  • Which of the following options uses machine learning to recommend optimal AWS resources and therefore reduces costs?
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TCO calculator

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  • from on-premises to AWS
  • reducing the need to invest in large capital expenditures and providing a pay as you go model
  • estimate the cost saving
  • detailed set of report that can be used in executive presentations
  • A company is not sure whether or not it is cost-effective to migrate to the AWS Cloud. Which service can help the executive board make a decision?
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Simple Monthly calculator / pricing calculator

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cost of service on AWS

  • Estimate the cost for your architect solution

What can you use to estimate the cost of your architecture solution?

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Tacking cost in the cloud

- Billing Dashboard:

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high level overview + free tier dashboard

  • Show all the cost associated for the month, forecast,
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Cost allocation Tags

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Tag resources to create detailed reports

  • To track your aws cost on a detail level
  • User- defined tags :
    define by user
  • Tagging and resources group:
    Free naming, common tage are: name, environment, Team
    Tag can be used to create resource group
  • Tags are used for organizing resources

What do Resource Groups rely on to group your resources?

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Cost and usage Reports

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Most comprehensive billing dataset

  • Dive deeper into your aws costs and usage
  • INTERGATED with Athena, redshift, or quicksight
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cost explorer

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view current usage (detailed) and forecast usage

  • Forecast usage to 12 months based on previous usage
  • Choose an optimal saving plain (to lower ptives your bill)
  • A company would like to choose the best Savings Plan and forecast its cost in the next 3 months. Which AWS service can help?
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Monitoring against cost plans:

- Billing Alarm

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in us-east-1 - track overall and per-service billing

  • Billing Alarms in cloud watch
  • It for actual cost, not for project costs
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budgets

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More advanced - tract usage, cost, RI, and get alerts

  • Created budget and send alarm when costs exceeds the budget
  • What can you use to get alerts when your costs and usage are exceeding or are forecasted to exceed your budgeting amount?
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Saving Plans

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Easy way to save based on long-term usage of AWS

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Multi account strategies

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  • Create account per department, per cost center, pr dev/test.prod
  • based on regulatory restriction (using SCP)
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Organizational units (OU)

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  • Business unit
  • Environment unit
  • Project unit
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4 pricing models

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  • Pay as you go: pay for what you use, remain agiles, responsive, meet scale demands
  • Save when you reserve: minimized risk, predictably, manages budgets, comply with long-term requirements
  • When you reserve, the larger the upfront payment, the smaller the discount. ( no the bigger the discount )
  • Pay less by using more: volumes-based discounts
  • Pay less a AWS grows

Free service & free tier on AWS
- Feature, 12 month

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Compute pricing - EC2

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  • Only charged for what you use
  • On demand instance: MOST cost efficient for an uninterruptible workload that runs once a year for 24 hours, Minimum of 60s, Pay per second (linux/windows) or per hour (other

(You are running an on-demand Linux EC2 instance, what timing is applied regarding billing? per-second)

  • Reserved instance:Up to 75% discount compared to on-demand on hourly rate , 1- or 3- years commitment
  • spot instance : Up to 90% discount compared to on-demand on hourly rate, Bid for unused capacity
  • Dedicated Host : Reserved for 1 year or 3 year commitment
  • saving planning as an alternative to save on sustained usage

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Content Delivery - Cloudfront

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  • Pricing is different across different geographic region
  • Aggregate for each edge location, then applied to your bills
  • Data transfer out (volume discount)
  • Number of HTTP/HTTPS request

CloudFront pricing is the same in every geographic region.
- false

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Networking cost in AWS per GB

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  • Used private ip indeed of public ip to communicate with ec2 instance for good saving and better network performance
  • Saving Plan: Commit a certain $ amount per hour for 1- 3 years
  • Ec2 saving plan: Up to 72% discount compared on-demad
  • Commit to usage of individual instance families in a region (eg C5 or M5)
  • Compute saving plan:
    Up to 66% discount compared to on-demand
  • Regardless of family, region, size, OS, tenancy, compute options
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AWS trusted Advisor

5 categories

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  • Cost optimization
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Fault tolerance
  • Service limits

A company would like recommendations regarding its performance, security, and fault tolerance. What can it use?

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trusted Advisor - Support plan

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  • 7 core check Basic & developer support plan
  • S3 bucket permission
  • Security groups- Specific port unrestricted
  • IAM use (one IAM user minimum)
  • MFA on root account
  • EBS public snapshots
  • RDS public snapshots
  • Service limits
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trusted Adviso

Full checks Business & enterprise support plan

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  • Full checks available on 5 categories
  • Ability to set cloudwatch alarms when reaching limites
  • Programmatic access using AWS support API
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AWS support plan pricing

  • Base support plan pricing free
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  • Customer service & communities - 24x7 access to customer service, documentation whotpaper and support forums
  • AWs Trusted Advisor- Access to the 7 core Trusted advisor check and guidance to provision your resources following best practices to increase performance and improve security
  • AWS personal health dashboard - a personalized view of the health of the Aws service and alerts when your resource are impacted
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AWS developer support plan

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  • All basic support plan +
  • business horse email access to cloud support associates
  • Unlimited cases / Primary contact

Case severity / response time
- General guidance < 24 business hours

  • System impaired: < 12 business hours
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AWS Business support Plan (24/7)

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  • Intended to be used if you have production workloads
  • Trusted advisor - full set of check + API access
  • 24x7 phone, email, and chat access to cloud support engineers
  • Unlimited case / unlimited contacts
  • Access to infrastructure event management for addition fee

Case severity / response time:

  • General guidance < 2 business hours
  • System imparied < 12 businesses hours
  • Production system impaired < 4 hours
  • Production system down < 1 hours

What is the most cost-effective option to have 24x7 phone, email, and chat support?

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AWS Enterprise Support Plan (24/7)

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  • Intended to be used if you have mission critical workload
  • All of business support plan+
  • Access to a Technical Account manager (TAM)
  • Concierge Support Team (for billing and account best practices)
  • Infrastructure event management, well-architecture & operations reviews

Case severity / response times

  • General guidance < 24 business hours
  • System impaired: < 12 business hours
  • Production system impaired: < 4 hours
  • Production system down < 1hours
  • Business- critical system down: < 15 minutes

The Enterprise Support Plan comes with a business-critical system down response under 15 minutes and offers access to a Technical Account Manager, as well as a Concierge Support Team.

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Free service & free tier on AWS

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IAm
VPC
consolidated billing 
(you do pay for the resource created
Elastic billing 
cloudformation 
auto scaling group

Which services are free to use in AWS?

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Storage Pricing - S3

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  • Number and size of object: price can be tiered (based on volume)
  • storage class
  • Number and types of requests
  • Data transfer out of S3 region
  • S3 Transfer Acceleration
  • Lifecycle transition
  • Similar service - EFS 9pay per use, has infrequent access & lifecycle rule)\
  • Which of the following is NOT a pricing factor in S3?

data transfer into S3

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Another way used Storage pricing - EBS

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The added data storage by EBS Snapshots are added cost in GB per month to EBS pricing. Other EBS pricing factors are: Volume type, Provisioned storage volume, IOPS, etc.

  • EBS Snapshots are added cost in GB per month.
    yes
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compute saving plan

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Which of the following options can provide up to 66% discount compared to On-demand for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage for 1 or 3 years and offers the possibility to change EC2 instances family type?

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Pricing model in AWS

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  • Pay as you go: pay for what you use, remain agiles, responsive, meet scale demands
  • Save when you reserve: minimized risk, predictably, manages budgets, comply with long-term requirements
    Reservation are available for EC2 reserved instance, DynamoBD reserved, capacity, Elasticache reserved, nodes, RDS reserved instance, redshift reserved nodes
  • Pay less by using more : volumes-based discounts
  • Pay less a AWS grows

Which pricing model allows you to minimize risks, predictably manage budgets, and comply with long-term requirements, and is available for EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS, and Redshift? save reserve

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Database pricing -RDS

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-Which RDS pricing option is the most cost-effective if you need capacity for 3 years?
Reserved Instances are good and more cost-effective (up to 69% discount compared to On-demand pricing, depending on the upfront) for long workloads. You can reserve instances for 1 or 3 years in RDS.

  • per hour billing

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