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Billing Flashcards

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12 months free

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12 months free usage following your initial sign-up date to AWS

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Always free

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Offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers

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Trials

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short-term free trials starting from the date you activate a particular service

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5 ways to pay for Amazon EC2 instances

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  1. On-demand
    You pay by the hour or by second without pre-paying
  2. Savings Plan
    Commit to compute usage measured per hour for a 1 or 3 year term
  3. Reserved Instances
    Commit to use for 1 or 3 years; pay regardless of usage
  4. Spot instances
    Instances only launch if spare capacity is available
  5. Dedicated Hosts
    Entire physical server just for you
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Lambda Pricing - You are charged when using Lambda

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1. Number of requests
Includes test invokes from the console.
2. Code execution Time
From execution start, in response to events, to stop
3. Always free
1 million requests per month
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S3 Pricing, you pay for the storage you use

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1. Storage Class
various storage classes
2. Storage
Number and size of objects
3. Data transfer
Data transferred out of S3 region.
4. Request and data retrieval
Request made for data and amount of requests
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RDS Pricing - Features that drive Pricing

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  1. Running Clock Hours
  2. Type of database
  3. storage
  4. purchase type
  5. data base count
  6. api requests
  7. deployment type.
  8. Data transfer.
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TCO

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Total cost of ownership.

A financial estimate that helps you understand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS.

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Applications discovery service

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helps you plan migration projects tot he AWS Cloud

  • Plan migration projects
  • Used to estimate TCO
  • Works with other services to migrate servers
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Ways to reduce your TCO using AWS

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  1. Minimize - capital expenditures
    AWS helps you minimized large capital expenditures, which reduces your TCO.
  2. Utilize - Reserved Instances
    AWS provides Reserved instances to help you lock in savings and reduce your TCO.
  3. Right - Size your resources.
    AWS helps you match the provisioning of resources to your usage needs to reduce your TCO
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Pricing calculator

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Provides an estimate of AWS fees and charges

  • Helps you calculate the TCO
  • Explore services based on your use case.
  • Find instances types that fit your needs.
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AWS Price list API

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Allows you to query the price of AWS services.

  • Query using JSON or HTML
  • Received price alerts when prices change
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3 fundamental drivers of cost

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Compute, storage and outbound data transfer

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Budgets

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Allows you to set custom budgets and alert you when your cost or usage exceed your budget amount.

  • Improve planning and cost control
  • Cost, usage, and reservation budgets
  • Budget alerts
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Budget types

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  1. Cost budgets
    Plan how much you want to spend on a service.
  2. Usage budgets.
    plan how much you wan tto use one or more services
  3. Reservation Budget
    -Set Reserved Instances or Savings plans utilization or coverage targets
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Cost and usage report

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Contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data
1. Downloadable detailed and comprehensive report
2. List usage for each service category
3. Aggregate usage data on a daily, hourly, or monthly level
Allows you to deep dive into your AWS cost and usage data. Download the report using S3 Console

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Cost Explorer

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Allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time
-visualize cost over time
-view past 12 months
-forecast for up to 3 months
Can analyze your ec2 usage over the past 7, 30, or 60 days

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Cost allocation tags

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Tags are useful for tracking spend.

  1. Allow you to label resources using a key and value pair.
  2. Allow you to track costs via the cost allocation report.
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Organizations

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Allows you to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella

  • Group multiple accounts
  • Single payment for all accounts
  • automate account creation
  • Allocate resources and apply policies across accounts.
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SCPs

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Service control policies.

Used to enforce permission you want everyone in the organization to follow

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OUs

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Organization units.

A grouping of AWS accounts that are simular

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Member accounts

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Stanard, individual aws accounts that contain your aws resources

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Benefits of using organizations

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  1. Consolidated billing
    The advantage of consolidated billing is that you receive one bill for multiple accounts
  2. Cost savings
    Volume discounts since usage is combined across accounts.
  3. Account Governance
    You have a quick and automated way to create accounts or invite existing accounts.
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Reserved instance sharing

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allows all accounts in the organization to receive the hourly cost-benefit of RIs purchased by any other account. You can always turn off RI sharing using the mater payer (or root) organization.

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Control Tower

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helps you ensure your accounts conform to company wide policies
-Helps setup new accounts using a multi-account strategy
-Works directly with AWS organizations
-Enforced the best use services across accounts.
-Provides a dashboard to manage accounts
IRW: Allows you to govern your multi-account environment by enabling cross-account security audits or preventing or detecting security issues through mandatory or optional guardrails

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Systems manager

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Give you visibility and control over your AWS resources
-Automate operation tasks on your resources
-group resources and take action
-patch and run commands on multiple ec2 instances or managed RDS instances
IRW: allows you to auto-patch software running on ec2 instances according to a schedule

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Trusted advisor

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Provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices
-Checks your account and makes recommendations
-Helps you see service limits
-helps you understand best practices
-Checks for unrestricted access for specific ports on ec2 instances
-Checks s3 bucket permissions to determine if public access.
-Checks for multi-factor authentication (MFA) on root account.
-Checks IAM password policy (enterprise or business)
-Checks for RDS public snapshots
-Checks for service usage greater than 80% over service limit (Enterprise or business)
-Checked for exposed access keys (Enterprise or business)
-Checks cloudfront content delivery optimization (enterprise or business)
IRW: Helps reduce your overall costs my monitoring service limits

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License manager

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Helps manage software licenses.

  • Manage on-premise and aws licenses
  • track licenses for oracle, microsoft, SAP and more
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Certificate manager

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Helps you provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates

  • Provides public and private certificates for free
  • integrates with elastic load balancing, api gateway and more
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Managed services

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helps you efficiently operate your aws infrastructure
-augments your internal staff
-provides ongoing management of your infrastructure
-Reduce operational risks and overhead
IRW: Increate your operational efficiently by helping you develop application-specific health monitoring using cloudwatch

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Professional services

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-helps enterprise customers move to a cloud based operating model
-Proposes solutions
-architects solutions
-implements solutions
IRW: Z You can quickly move on-premises applicationsi to the cloud using aws professional services

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APN

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AWS partner network.
A global community of approved partners that offer software solutions and consulting services for AWS.
-Offers technology partners that provide software solutions.
-provides consulting partners that offer professional services
-Find approved vendors with deeps aws expertise

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Marketplace

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a digital catalog of prebuilt solutions you can purchase or license. You may also sell your own solutions to others via marketplace
-buy third-party software
-sell solutions to aws customers
-search the catalog of software listing and install with click of a button.
offer free trials

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Personal health dashboard

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Alerts you to events that might impact your aws environment.

  • provides troubleshooting guidance
  • feedback tailored to your specific environment
  • provides tailored advise
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Basic

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Basic support is included for free for all aws accounts

  • Account and billing
  • service limit increases
  • Customer service 24/7 via email only
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Developer

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Developer support starts at $29 a month and is recommended for testing and development.

  • account and billing
  • service limit increases
  • technical support
  • 1 primary contact
  • unlimited cases
  • Cloud support associate business hours via email only
  • <24 hours general, <12 system impaired
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Business

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Business supports starts at $100 a month and is recommended for production workloads.
-account and billing
-service limit increases
-technical support
-unlimited contacts
-unlimited cases
-full set of trusted advisor checks
-Cloud support engineers
-24/7 via email, phone chat
<24 hours general guidance
<12 hour system impaired
<4 hour production system impaired
<1 hour production system down
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Enterprise

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Starts at $15,000 a month and is recommended for business or mission-critical production workloads
\+TAM
\+Concierge support team
\+infrastructure event management
\+Full set of trusted advisor checks
<15 min doe business critical down.
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Support cases types you open with AWS support

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  1. Account and billing
    Account-related and billing cases can be opted by all customers
  2. Service limit increases
    Default service quota (or limit) increases can be opened by all customers.
  3. Technical Support
    Technical support cases can only be opened by customers on the developer, business, or enterprise plans

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