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AWS Organisations and Billing Flashcards

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Q: What is AWS Organizations?

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A: A service for centrally managing multiple AWS accounts, consolidating billing, and applying governance controls across accounts.

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Q: What are the key features of AWS Organizations?

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A: Consolidated billing, Service Control Policies (SCPs), account creation, and account grouping with organizational units (OUs).

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Q: What are Organizational Units (OUs) in AWS Organizations?

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A: Hierarchical groupings of AWS accounts used to apply policies and manage accounts within an organization.

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Q: What is the root account in AWS Organizations?

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A: The master account in AWS Organizations, which has billing and management privileges for the organization.

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Q: What are SCPs in AWS Organizations?

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A: Policies used to restrict permissions for AWS accounts and OUs across an organization.

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Q: What is consolidated billing in AWS Organizations?

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A: A feature that combines billing for all member accounts into a single bill, allowing cost tracking and discounts.

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Q: What are cost allocation tags?

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A: Metadata tags assigned to AWS resources for tracking and categorizing costs.

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Q: What are linked accounts in AWS Organizations?

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A: Member accounts that are part of an organization and linked to the management account for billing purposes.

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Q: What is Reserved Instance sharing in AWS Organizations?

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A: A feature that allows unused Reserved Instance capacity in one account to be applied to usage in another account.

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Q: What is AWS Budgets?

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A: A service for setting custom cost and usage thresholds and receiving alerts when those thresholds are exceeded.

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Q: What is AWS Cost Explorer?

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A: A tool for analyzing AWS costs and usage over time, with filters for services, tags, and accounts.

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Q: What is the AWS Billing Dashboard?

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A: A centralized interface for viewing and managing AWS bills, costs, and payment methods.

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Q: How can you track AWS Free Tier usage?

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A: By using the AWS Billing Dashboard, which shows free tier usage and remaining limits.

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Q: What is the AWS Cost and Usage Report?

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A: A detailed report that provides comprehensive data on AWS usage and costs for analysis and optimization.

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Q: What are AWS Savings Plans?

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A: Flexible pricing models that offer discounts in exchange for a consistent usage commitment over one or three years.

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Q: What are the main AWS pricing models?

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A: Pay-as-you-go, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances.

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Q: How does Trusted Advisor help with billing?

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A: It provides recommendations for cost optimization, such as identifying unused or underutilized resources.

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Q: How are AWS Marketplace costs handled in AWS Organizations?

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A: Costs for marketplace products are billed to the management account and can be tracked by linked accounts.

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Q: How are tax settings configured in AWS Billing?

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A: Tax settings, such as exemptions and registration numbers, can be configured in the AWS Billing Console.

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Q: How can payment methods be managed in AWS?

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A: Payment methods are managed at the management account level and shared across all linked accounts.

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Q: How can you set up billing alerts in AWS?

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A: By using AWS Budgets or CloudWatch alarms to notify when spending exceeds defined thresholds.

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Q: What IAM policy is needed for billing access?

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A: The aws-portal:* permissions, granted to IAM users with billing console access.

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Q: How can split-billing reports be created?

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A: By using tags, Cost Explorer, or the Cost and Usage Report (CUR) to attribute costs to different teams or projects.

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Q: What is the maximum number of linked accounts in AWS Organizations?

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A: 5,000 accounts can be managed under a single organization.

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Q: How do Reserved Instance discounts work across accounts in AWS Organizations?

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A: Reserved Instance discounts are automatically applied to matching usage across linked accounts.

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Q: What are cross-account roles in AWS Organizations?

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A: IAM roles that enable secure access to resources across accounts within an organization.

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Q: What is AWS RAM?

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A: A service that allows resource sharing across accounts within an organization, such as VPCs, Transit Gateways, and subnets.

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Q: What are cost optimization best practices in AWS?

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A: Use Reserved Instances or Savings Plans, tag resources for cost tracking, and delete unused resources.

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Q: What discounts are available through consolidated billing?

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A: Volume discounts for services like S3 and EC2, applied across all accounts in an organization.

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Q: What is the AWS Pricing Calculator?

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A: A tool to estimate AWS costs for resources and services based on configuration and usage.

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Q: How are accounts created in AWS Organizations?

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A: Using the management account, new member accounts can be created programmatically or through the console.

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Q: How do tags help with billing in AWS?

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A: Tags categorize resources, making it easier to allocate costs to projects, departments, or environments.

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Q: How does AWS handle cross-region billing?

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A: Costs are combined under a single bill, but usage details are available for each region.

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Q: What IAM policy is required to view billing information?

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A: The aws-portal:ViewBilling permission.

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Q: Where is billing data stored?

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A: In an S3 bucket configured for Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) and accessible for analysis using Athena or QuickSight.

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Q: How can member accounts be removed or deleted?

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A: By removing them from the organization, making them standalone accounts, and deactivating them if necessary.

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