AWS pt 3 Flashcards

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AWS Organizations (Billing)

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  • Manage multiple AWS accounts
  • Consolidated billing
  • Combined usage (Use reserved), pricing benefits
  • Management account can turn off reserved sharing
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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
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AWS Organization (Multi Account strategies)

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  • Create account per department
  • Use tagging for billing
  • Cloudtrail used for logs sent to S3
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AWS Control Tower

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  • Runs on top of AWS organizations
  • Automates consolidated billing
  • Detects policy violations and remediates them
  • Monitors compliance
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AWS Resource Access Manager (v)

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  • Share with other accounts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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Network costs in AWS per GB

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  • Private IP instead of public IP
  • Use the same AZ for max cost saving
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Saving Plan

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  • Easiest way to set up long term commitments
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EC2 Savings Plan

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  • -75% than on demand
  • Commit to usage of individual instance families in a region
  • Regardless of AZ, OS or tenancy
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Compute Savings Plan

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  • Up to 66% discount
  • Regardless of family, region, size, OS, tenancy etc
  • EC2, ECS, Fargate
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AWS Compute Optimizer

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  • Reduce cost and improve performance by recommending optimal AWS resources
  • Use ML to analyze resource configuration and utilize cloudwatch metrics
  • Supported resources: EC2, ASG, EBS, Lambda
  • 25% discount
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AWS Pricing Calculator

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  • Estimate cost for your Solutions Architecture
  • For those who want to reorganize or expand their usage
  • If they’ve had no experience with it
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AWS Billing Dashboard

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  • Just a high level overview of your costs
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Cost Allocation Tags

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  • Track your cost on a detailed level
  • AWS Generated Tags: Auto-connected to resources you create, start with prefix AWS
  • User Defined Tags: Defined by user prefix start with user
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Cost and Usage Report

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  • Dive deeper into your AWS cost and usage
  • Comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available
  • Cost can be integrated with Athena Redshift and Quicksight
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Cost Explorer

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  • Visualize, understand and manage your AWS cost and usage overtime
  • Create custom reports that analyze cost and usage data at a high level across all accounts
  • Forecasts usage up to 12 months
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Billing Alarms in Cloudwatch

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  • Simple alerts
  • Billing alarms is stored here
  • For actual costs
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AWS Budgets

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  • Send alarms when costs exceed the budget
  • Usage, Cost, Reservation, Savings Plans
  • For reserved instances (track utilization)
  • Supports EC2, ElastiCache, RDS, Redshift
  • Up to 5 SNS notifications per budget
  • Same options as Cost Explorer
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AWS Cost Anamoly Service

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  • Continuously monitor your cost and usage using ML to detect unusual spends
  • Learns your unique, historic spend patterns
  • Monitors AWS services, member accounts, cost allocation tags or cost categories
  • Root cause analysis
  • Individual slerts or daily/weekly summaries
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AWS Service Quotas

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  • Notify when you’re close to a service quota value threshold
  • Request a quota increase from ‘AWS Service quotas’ or shutdown resources before a limit is achieved
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AWS Trusted Advisor

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  • No need to install anything
  • Gives you a high-level assessment
  • Provides recommendations: Cost, security, service limits, performance, fault tolerance, operational excellence
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Basic (AWS support plan)

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  • 24/7 access to customer service, support forums, documentations, whitepapers and support forums
  • AWS Trusted advisor (7 core)
  • Personal health dashboard
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AWS Developer Support Plan

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  • Business Hour email access
  • Unlimited access / 1 primary contact
  • General guidance (24h), Systems impaired (1h)
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AWS Business Support Plan

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  • Production workloads
  • Trusted Advisor: Full set of access and API access
  • 24/7 phone, email, and chat access to engineers
  • Unlimited cases / contacts
  • Access to infra event management for additional fees
  • Systems impaired (4h) and production down (1h)
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AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan

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  • production or business critical workloads
  • Technical account manager and concierge support team
  • system down (30m)
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Enterprise Support Plan

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  • Infra event management, well architected & operations reviews
  • Mission critical workloads
  • 15m