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AWS Billing & Pricing Flashcards

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Pricing Model

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you only pay for the services you need, for as long as you need them without long term contracts or complex licensing

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Support Plans

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o Basic – Free – no opening any cases - production system down= 0

o Developer - $29 – 1 person/unlimited cases – production system down= 12 hrs

o Business - $100 – unlimited contacts/unlimited cases – production system down = 1 hr

o Enterprise -$15k includes technical account manager – unlimited contacts/unlimited cases – production system now = 1 hr or business critical system down = 15 min

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Billing Alarm

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AKA - CloudWatch is used to create an alarm for automated monthly billing cycles

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Capex

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Fixed sunk costs like purchasing servers (harware depreciates over time)

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Opex

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Operations expenditures where you pay for what you use (gas/utility bills).

Opex enables more readily available cash flow for other investments

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5 Basic Billing Policies

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o	1. Pay as you go
o	2. Pay less when your reserve
o	3. Pay even less per unit by using more (volume discount)
o	4. Pay even less as AWS grows
o	5. Custom Pricing
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3 Fundamental Drivers of AWS Cost

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  1. Compute
  2. Storage
  3. Outbound data
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Capex is tied to

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Cost optimization by putting cost visibility earlier and upfront

It’s easier to do these cost controls before you really build out your IT infrastructure and environment

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AWS Services are priced

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Independently & Transparently

  • No minimum commitments or long term contracts are required unless you choose to save money thorough a reservation model
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4 Different Pricing Models

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o On Demand – pay a fixed rate by the hour/second with no long term commitment

o Dedicated Hosts – physical EC2 server dedicated for your use. Can help reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses. Dedicated for a single customer

o Spot Instances – enables to you bid on pricing for capacity to provide greater savings (only if you have flexible start and end times – think ebay).

o Reserved – provides you capacity reservation and offers significant discount but required to commit to a 1 or 3 year contract

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What services are free?

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o Amazon VPC (virtual data center in cloud)

o Elastic Beanstalk (when it provisions instances those aren’t free)

o CloudFormation

o IAM*

o Auto Scaling

o Opsworks – DevOps Product

o Consolidated Billing

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What are the 9 items that determine price

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o Amazon VPC (virtual data center in cloud)
o Elastic Beanstalk (when it provision instances those aren’t free)
o CloudFormation
o IAM*
o Auto Scaling
o Opsworks – DevOps Product
o Consolidated Billing

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What determines EC2 Pricing

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o Hours of Server Time, Instance Type, Pricing Model, # of Instances, Load Balancing
o You can use EC2 Reserved Instances to reserve capacity and get a discount on your instance usage compared to running on-demand instances
o You get a better discount if you pay up front

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What determines pricing for Lambda

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o Request Pricing
     - Free Tier: 1 Million Request per 
       month
     - $0.20 per 1 Million request 
        thereafter

o Duration Pricing
- 400k GB-seconds per month free

o Additional Charges
- If your Lambda function uses other
AWS services you might get charged

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What determines price for EBS

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  1. Volumes (per GB)
  2. Snapshots (per GB)
  3. Data Transfer
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What determines price for S3

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  1. Storage Class (standard, IA, or 1AZ IA, etc.)
  2. Storage you’re using
  3. Request (GET, PUT, COPY)
  4. Data Transfer
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What determines price for Glacier? (data archival service)

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  1. Storage
  2. Data Retrieval Times - longer the time,
    larger the saving
18
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What determines price for Snowball

Massive disk used to transfer your data to AWS

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o Service Fee per job
- Snowball 50 Terabyte: $200
- Snowball 80 Terabyte: $250
o Daily Charge
- First 10 days are free, after that its $15
per day
o Data Transfer
- Data transfer into S3 is free, data
transfer out is not free (encourage
folks to stay on AWS Cloud)

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What determines pricing for RDS?

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o	Clock hours of server time
o	Database characteristics
o	Database purchase types
o	Number of database instances
o	Provisioned storage
o	Additional Storage
o	Request, Deployment Types, and 
        Transfer
20
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What is RDS

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RDS is a manual SQL database service used to support an array of database engines to store and organize data. It also helps with relational database management tasks, such as data migration, backup, recovery and patching.

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What determines pricing for CloudFront (a content delivery network (CDN) service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience)

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o Traffic Distribution
o Requests
o Data Transfer Out

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What is Consolidated Billing

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o Paying account is independent. Cannot access resources of the other accounts
- Linked Accounts are independent
- Currently a limit of 20 linked
account for consolidated billing

o Advantages of Consolidated Billing?
     - One bill per AWS account
     - Very easy to track charges and 
        allocate cost
     - Volume Pricing Discount*
23
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Billing Alert

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  • When monitoring is enabled on the paying account, the billing data for all linked account is included
24
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AWS Quick Start

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o A way of deploying environments
quickly using CloudFormation
templates built by AWS SA’s

25
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AWS Landing Zone

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o A solution that helps customers more
quickly setup a secure, multi-account
AWS environment based on AWS best
practices

26
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AWS Calculators

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  1. AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
    • Used to simply measure your
    running costs on AWS on a per
    month basis
  2. AWS Total Cost of Ownership Calculator (what is it costing you to be on-prem vs. cloud?)
    • Helps you estimate cost savings
    with pre-built presentations for
    executives
  • 4 measurements for cost
    • Server Cost
    • Storage Cost
    • Network Cost
    • IT Labor Cost

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