Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute Pricing

Question 1

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Answer 1

web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

Question 2

Pricing models for Amazon EC2

Answer 2

On-Demand Instances
Savings Plans
Spot Instances
Reserved Instances
Per-second billing

Question 3

On-Demand Instances

Answer 3

pay for compute capacity per hour or per second, depending on which instances you run.

Question 4

Savings Plans

Answer 4

flexible pricing model that offer low prices on Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate usage, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term.

Question 5

Spot Instances

Answer 5

allow you to request spare Amazon EC2 computing capacity for up to 90 percent off the On-Demand price

Question 6

Reserved Instances

Answer 6

provide you with a significant discount (up to 75 percent) compared to On-Demand Instance pricing.

Question 7

Per-second billing

Answer 7

saves money and has a minimum of 60 seconds billing.

Question 8

Estimating Amazon EC2 costs

Answer 8

Clock hours of server time
Instance type
Pricing model
Number of instances
Load balancing
Detailed monitoring
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Elastic IP addresses
Licensing