AWS pt 3 Flashcards
1
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AWS Organizations (Billing)
A
- Manage multiple AWS accounts
- Consolidated billing
- Combined usage (Use reserved), pricing benefits
- Management account can turn off reserved sharing
2
Q
AWS Organizations (Service Control Policies)
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- Restrict User Access
- Does not apply to master account
- Must have explicit Allow (Deny by default)
- Enforce PCI compliance by disabling services
3
Q
AWS Organization (Multi Account strategies)
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- Create account per department
- Use tagging for billing
- Cloudtrail used for logs sent to S3
4
Q
AWS Control Tower
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- Runs on top of AWS organizations
- Automates consolidated billing
- Detects policy violations and remediates them
- Monitors compliance
5
Q
AWS Resource Access Manager (v)
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- Share with other accounts
6
Q
AWS Service Catalog
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- New users may have too many options: create stacks that are not compliant
- Some may want self-service portals: launch aauthorized products pre-determined by admins
7
Q
Pricing models of AWs
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- pay as you go
- save when you reserve
- pay less by using more
- pay less as AWS grows
8
Q
Compute pricing (EC2)
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- Only charged for what you use
- Number of instances
- Instance configuration
- ELB running time and amount of data processed
- Detailed monitoring
- On-demand, Spot Instances (-90%), Reserved Instances (-75%), Dedicated Hosts (1&3 year commitments)
- Charged for data transfers between different regions
9
Q
Compute Pricing (Lambda, ECS)
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- Lambda: per call and duration
- ECS: Pay for resources stored and created
- Fargate: Pay for VCPU and memory allocated
10
Q
Storage Pricing for S3, EFS
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- Number and size of objects: Price can be tiered
- Number and type of requests
- Data transfer out of S3
- S3 transfer acceleration
- Lifecycle transitions
11
Q
Storage Pricing for EBS
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- Volume type
- Storage Volume (GB per month)
- IOPS: General purposes, provisioned amount in IOPS, magnetic (number of requests)
- SnapShots: Added data per cost in GB per month, inbound is free
12
Q
RDS Pricing
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- per hour billing
- DB characteristics (Engine, size, memory class)
- Purchase type (on-demand, reserved instance with required up-front)
- Backup storage: No additional charge unless its additional
- Number of IOPS requests per month
- Deployment type (Single AZ, multi AZ)
13
Q
Content Delivery (CloudFront)
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- Pricing is different across geo locations
- Aggregated for each edge location
- Data Transfer out
- Number of HTTP requests
14
Q
Network costs in AWS per GB
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- Private IP instead of public IP
- Use the same AZ for max cost saving
15
Q
Saving Plan
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- Easiest way to set up long term commitments