AWS Account Management, Billing and Support Flashcards
What is AWS Organizations used for?
Hint: Think of it as managing multiple accounts.
A global service that allows you to manage multiple AWS accounts, including consolidated billing and pricing benefits from aggregated usage.
What benefits does consolidated billing offer in AWS Organizations?
Hint: It simplifies payments.
Provides a single payment across all accounts and pricing benefits from aggregated usage (volume discounts for EC2, S3, etc.).
What does AWS Control Tower do?
Hint: It automates account setups.
Easily sets up multiple accounts with best practices and automates the setup of AWS Organizations.
What is the AWS Service Catalog?
Hint: It organizes cloud resources.
Allows you to easily set up CloudFormation templates that define collections of services and IAM permissions for access.
What are the free services provided by AWS?
Hint: Think basic infrastructure services.
IAM, VPC, and Consolidated Billing.
What is the basic pricing model for AWS Compute services?
Hint: Pay as you go.
Only pay for what you use.
What are On-Demand instances in EC2?
Hint: Flexibility at a cost.
Instances billed per second (Linux/Windows) or per hour, with a minimum charge of 60 seconds.
What are Reserved instances?
Hint: Long-term savings on EC2.
Offer up to 75% discount compared to On-Demand pricing, available with 1 or 3-year commitments and flexible payment options.
What are Spot instances?
Hint: Bid for unused capacity.
Offer up to 90% discount compared to On-Demand pricing, where you bid for unused capacity.
What is a Dedicated Host?
Hint: Reserved physical servers.
What is a Dedicated Host?
Hint: Reserved physical servers.
What are Savings Plans?
Hint: Alternative to reserved instances.
Commitment to a certain dollar amount per hour for 1 or 3 years to save on sustained usage.
How is Lambda pricing structured?
Hint: Based on usage.
Pay per call and pay per duration of execution.
What is the EC2 Launch Type Model in ECS?
Hint: Resource-based pricing.
No additional fees; you only pay for AWS resources used and created in your application.
What does Fargate pricing depend on?
Hint: Resource allocation.
Pay for vCPU and memory resources allocated to your applications in containers.
What does AWS Config do?
Hint: Records resource configurations.
Records all resource configurations and compliance over time.
What is CloudFormation used for?
Hint: Infrastructure as code.
Deploys stacks across accounts and regions.
What does CloudTrail do?
Hint: Monitors account activity.
Records API calls made within your AWS account.
What should you do if your AWS account is compromised?
Hint: Security measures.
Change the root password, delete and rotate all passwords/keys, and contact AWS support.
What is an EC2 Savings Plan?
Hint: Long-term EC2 savings.
Offers up to 72% discount compared to On-Demand prices for usage of individual instance families in a region.
What is a Compute Savings Plan?
Hint: Flexibility across compute options.
Offers up to 66% discount regardless of family, region, size, OS, tenancy, and includes EC2, Fargate, and Lambda options.
What does the AWS Compute Optimizer do?
Hint: Optimizes resource usage.
Recommends resource configurations to reduce costs and improve performance.
What is the AWS Pricing Calculator?
Hint: Cost estimation tool.
Estimates costs of AWS services.
What information does the AWS Billing Dashboard provide?
Hint: Monthly overview.
A high-level overview of costs incurred by month, including a free tier dashboard.
What are Cost Allocation Tags?
Hint: Track costs by categories.
Tags resources to track costs on a deeper level.
What do Cost and Usage Reports provide?
Hint: Detailed billing insights
The most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data for analyzing bills in detail.
What is AWS Cost Explorer used for?
Hint: Analyze costs over time.
Allows viewing of current usage and costs over time and forecasting usage up to 12 months ahead.
What do Billing Alarms do?
Hint: Monitor spending thresholds.
Track overall and per-service billing, stored in the us-east-1 region.
How do AWS Budgets work?
Hint: Set spending limits.
Create budgets and send alarms when costs or forecasts exceed those budgets, with advanced tracking of usage, costs, and RI.
What is Cost Anomaly Detection?
Hint: Identifies unusual spending patterns.
Uses machine learning to detect unusual spending trends.
What do Service Quotas notify you about?
Hint: Monitor service limits.
Notifies you when you’re close to service quota thresholds.
What is AWS Trusted Advisor?
Hint: Resource optimization tool.
Provides high-level assessments of your account to give insights for performance and security improvements.
What is included in the AWS Basic Support Plan?
Hint: Basic support access.
24/7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers, and support forums.
What checks does AWS Trusted Advisor provide in the Basic Support Plan?
Hint: Core resource checks.
Access to the 7 core Trusted Advisor checks and guidance for resource provisioning following best practices.
What does the AWS Personal Health Dashboard provide?
Hint: Personalized service health monitoring.
A personalized view of AWS service health and alerts when your resources are impacted.
What does the AWS Developer Support Plan include?
Hint: Enhanced access.
All Basic Support Plan features plus business hours email access to Cloud Support Associates with unlimited cases.
What are the response times for case severity in the Developer Support Plan?
Hint: Varies by severity.
General guidance: < 24 business hours; System impaired: < 12 business hours.
What features does the AWS Business Support Plan provide?
Hint: Comprehensive support options.
Full set of Trusted Advisor checks, 24/7 access to Cloud Support Engineers, and access to Infrastructure Event Management for an additional fee.
General guidance: < 24 hours; System impaired: < 12 hours; Production system impaired: < 4 hours; Production system down: < 1 hour.
What is the purpose of the AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan?
- Critical workload support.
Access to Technical Account Managers (TAM), Concierge Support Team, and additional support features for critical systems.
Production system impaired: < 4 hours; Production system down: < 1 hour; Business-critical system down: < 30 minutes.
What is the primary purpose of the AWS Enterprise Support Plan?
Mission-critical workload support.
Access to a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM), Concierge Support Team, Infrastructure Event Management, and Well-Architected Reviews.
Production system impaired: < 4 hours; Production system down: < 1 hour; Business-critical system down: < 15 minutes.
