AWS Billing, Pricing, Support

Question 1

AWS Support plan included for all AWS customers, providing support for account and billing questions, as well as service quota increases

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Basic Support Plan

Question 2

AWS Support plan Ideal for those experimenting or testing in AWS, offering best practice guidance, client-side diagnostic tools, and building-block architecture support

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Developer Support Plan

Question 3

AWS Support plan recommended for production workloads, providing 24/7 access to technical support, case severity prioritization, and a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM)

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Business Support Plan

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AWS Support Plan designed for large organizations with complex, mission-critical workloads. It provides 24/7 access to AWS support, a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM), and personalized support for proactive planning, optimization, and issue resolution. Features include infrastructure event management, best practice guidance, access to AWS Trusted Advisor, automation tools, and a Support Concierge for billing and account management.

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Enterprise Support

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AWS Support plan designed for businesses with more complex needs, offering a mix of Business Support and additional features like proactive support and access to a Support Concierge

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Enterprise On-Ramp Support

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Service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate how your resources are set up and helps ensure you meet certain requirements

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AWS Config

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AWS tool that helps you optimize your AWS environment by providing real-time guidance based on best practices and is offered to all AWS customers

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Trusted Advisor

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Pillar of Trusted Advisor that identifies opportunities to save money, such as by deleting unused resources or optimizing your usage

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Cost Optimization

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Pillar of Trusted Advisor that provides suggestions to enhance the performance and reliability of your systems.

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Performance

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Pillar of Trusted Advisor that recommends actions to reduce risks and improve your overall defense posture.

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Security

Question 10

Trusted Advisor pillar that ensures your resources are resilient and can handle failures gracefully.

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Fault Tolerence

Question 11

Core component of Trusted Advisor that keeps track of your usage and alerts

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Service Limits

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What are the five pillars of Trusted Advisor

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1- Cost Optimization
2- Performance
3- Security
4- Fault Tolerance
5- Service Limits

Question 13

AWS service that helps you choose the most efficient AWS resources for your workloads by using machine learning to analyze your historical usage data and provides recommendations

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AWS Compute Optimizer

Question 14

The operations hub for your AWS applications and resources and a secure end-to-end management solution.

It provides a unified user interface to view operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your resources

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AWS Systems Manager

Question 15

A fully managed service that simplifies the process of setting up and governing a secure, compliant, multi-account AWS environment

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AWS Control Tower

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AWS Control Tower orchestrates these services to create a landing zone

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AWS Organizations, AWS Service Catalog, and AWS IAM Identity Center

Question 17

A fully managed service that simplifies billing and reporting for AWS customers.
- It allows you to customize pricing, distribute credits and fees, and manage shared overhead costs

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AWS Billing Conductor

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This service is particularly useful for organizations that need to allocate costs to different teams or departments, or for AWS Marketplace Channel Partners who need to manage billing for their customers

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AWS Billing Conductor

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A service that helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you scale your AWS resources

It allows you to create and manage multiple AWS accounts, organize them into groups, and apply policies for governance and security across those accounts

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AWS Organizations

Question 20

EC2 instance pricing model that is:
*Pay as you go: No upfront costs or long-term commitments
*Ideal for applications with unpredictable workloads
*Pay for compute capacity by the hour or second

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On-Demand Pricing

Question 21

EC2 instance pricing model that has:
*Discounted Rates: Up to 72% off On-Demand prices
*Requires a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for 1 or 3 years

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Savings Plans

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EC2 instance pricing model that has:
*Discounted Rates: Up to 75% off On-Demand prices
*Commitment: Requires a commitment to a specific instance configuration (instance type and region) for 1 or 3 years

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Reserved Instances

(Two type: Standard and Convertible Reserved Instances)

Question 23

EC2 instance pricing model that has:
*Discounted Rates: Up to 90% off On-Demand prices
*Available for unused EC2 capacity
*Suitable for fault-tolerant or stateless applications

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Spot Instances

Question 24

EC2 instance pricing model where you:
*Pay for a physical host that is fully dedicated to your instances
*Bring your existing per-socket, per-core, or per-VM software licenses to reduce costs

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Dedicated Hosts

Question 25

EC2 instance pricing model that has
*Guaranteed capacity reserved for your EC2 instances in a specific Availability Zone
*Can be reserved for any duration

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On-Demand Capacity Reservations