AWS Account/Billing Flashcards

1
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How many hours PER MONTH can you run a t2.micro EC2 instance on the Free Tier?

A

750

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2
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How many hours PER MONTH can you run lightweight relational database workloads under RDS on the Free Tier?

A

750

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3
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How much can you store in S3 on the Free Tier?

A

5GB

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How much can you store in EBS on the Free Tier?

A

30GB of either magnetic or solid-state drive

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5
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How much can you store with ECR (Elastic Container Registry) on the Free Tier?

A

500MB/per month

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6
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How many outbound data transfers and HTTPs requests can you get/make PER YEAR for CloudFront on the Free Tier?

A

50GB of outbound data transfers

2 million HTTP/HTTPs requests

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How many API calls can you make PER MONTH on Amazon API Gateway on the Free Tier?

A

1 million

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8
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How many alarms/metrics on CloudWatch are always free?

A

10 each

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9
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How much data can you retrieve from Amazon Glacier for free (always)?

A

10GB

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10
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How many outbound emails PER MONTH can you send for free with SES (always)?

A

62,000

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How much compute time for Lambda does AWS give for free (always)?

A

1 million requests and 3.2 million seconds of compute time

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12
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What is the Simple Monthly Calculator tool?

A

A tool to help you understand what running any combination of AWS resources will cost you

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13
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What is the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator?

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A tool to help you compare what you’re currently paying for on-premises servers with what the same workload would cost on AWS

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14
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Are service limits adjustable?

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Most service limits are soft, meaning they can be adjusted upon request. Some limits are hard, however, and cannot be increased.

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15
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What is the Billing Dashboard?

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It’s the main dashboard that contains a visual Spend Summary that displays costs from the previous and current months so far, along with a forecast of the costs you’ll likely face.

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16
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What is AWS Budgets?

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Think “alerts.” It’s a tool for TRACKING a specified set of events. You can create a cost budget, a usage budget, or a reservation budget (to help you understand the status of any active EC2, RDS, Redshift, or Elasticache reserve instances you may have).

17
Q

What is Cost Explorer?

A

It lets you BUILD GRAPHS to visualize your account’s historical and current costs.

18
Q

What is a tag?

A

Tags are metadata identification elements representing a resource and its actions.

19
Q

What is the difference between a resource tag and a cost allocation tag?

A

A resource tag can be used to quickly identify the purpose and owner of a particular running resource.

A cost tag is meant to interact with billing tools and helps you identify your resources only for the purpose of tracking account spending.

20
Q

What is AWS Organizations?

A

Formerly known as Consolidated Billing, AWS Organizations allows you to centralize the administration of multiple AWS accounts owned or controlled by a single company.

21
Q

What is a limitation of the Simple Monthly Calculator?

A

Not all AWS services are included.

22
Q

What is one reason for the AWS service limits?

A

To prevent individual customers from accidentally launching a crippling level of
resource consumption

23
Q

What is the best way to get a quick summary of this month’s spend for your account?

A

Billing & Cost Management Dashboard

24
Q

What is the main goal for creating a Usage budget type (in AWS Budgets)?

A

To track particular categories of resource consumption

25
Q

What are two scenarios in which it would be a good to use AWS Organizations?

A

A single company with multiple AWS accounts that wants a single place to administrate everything

A company that’s integrated some operations with an upstream vendor

26
Q

What element of AWS will not have associated costs?

A

Inbound data transfer