AWS Account/Billing Flashcards
How many hours PER MONTH can you run a t2.micro EC2 instance on the Free Tier?
750
How many hours PER MONTH can you run lightweight relational database workloads under RDS on the Free Tier?
750
How much can you store in S3 on the Free Tier?
5GB
How much can you store in EBS on the Free Tier?
30GB of either magnetic or solid-state drive
How much can you store with ECR (Elastic Container Registry) on the Free Tier?
500MB/per month
How many outbound data transfers and HTTPs requests can you get/make PER YEAR for CloudFront on the Free Tier?
50GB of outbound data transfers
2 million HTTP/HTTPs requests
How many API calls can you make PER MONTH on Amazon API Gateway on the Free Tier?
1 million
How many alarms/metrics on CloudWatch are always free?
10 each
How much data can you retrieve from Amazon Glacier for free (always)?
10GB
How many outbound emails PER MONTH can you send for free with SES (always)?
62,000
How much compute time for Lambda does AWS give for free (always)?
1 million requests and 3.2 million seconds of compute time
What is the Simple Monthly Calculator tool?
A tool to help you understand what running any combination of AWS resources will cost you
What is the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator?
A tool to help you compare what you’re currently paying for on-premises servers with what the same workload would cost on AWS
Are service limits adjustable?
Most service limits are soft, meaning they can be adjusted upon request. Some limits are hard, however, and cannot be increased.
What is the Billing Dashboard?
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.
What is AWS Budgets?
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).
What is Cost Explorer?
It lets you BUILD GRAPHS to visualize your account’s historical and current costs.
What is a tag?
Tags are metadata identification elements representing a resource and its actions.
What is the difference between a resource tag and a cost allocation tag?
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.
What is AWS Organizations?
Formerly known as Consolidated Billing, AWS Organizations allows you to centralize the administration of multiple AWS accounts owned or controlled by a single company.
What is a limitation of the Simple Monthly Calculator?
Not all AWS services are included.
What is one reason for the AWS service limits?
To prevent individual customers from accidentally launching a crippling level of
resource consumption
What is the best way to get a quick summary of this month’s spend for your account?
Billing & Cost Management Dashboard
What is the main goal for creating a Usage budget type (in AWS Budgets)?
To track particular categories of resource consumption
What are two scenarios in which it would be a good to use AWS Organizations?
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
What element of AWS will not have associated costs?
Inbound data transfer
