Billing Flashcards
Billing
Allows to manage multiple accounts as Global Service
Consolidated Billing
Aggregate Usage
Pooling of reserved EC2 instances
Use of service control policies(SCP)
AWS Organizations
Centrally manage all users and roles permissions in your organization
Whitelist or Blacklist iAM actions
Apply at OU(Org unit) or account level and not at Master Account level
You can allow or deny access to your AWS account services to the OU or Account
SCP (Service control policies)
Combined Usage - Share volume pricing, reserved instances, savings plan discount
One bill
Advantages of consolidated billing
Set up and govern a secure multi-account AWS environment with best practices for your organization
Automate the setup of accounts
Automate ongoing policy management using guardrails
Detect the policy violations and remediate them
Monitor your compliance through an interactive dashboard
Where in AWS you can do?
AWS Control Tower
Share resources(owned by your account) with other accounts
AWS RAM (Resource access manager)
Self Service Portal to launch AWS services (pre configured by cloudformation templates) by the users
To use pre-defined tracks defined by admins
AWS Service Catalog
- Pay as you go (Pay by sec/min on running instance)2. Save when you reserve 3. Pay less by using more4. Pay less as AWS grows
Pricing Models
Allows you to minimize risks, predictably manage budgets, and comply with long-term requirements, and is available for EC2, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS, and Redshift
Which pricing model?
Save when you reserve
Pay per call + Pay per duration (times * RAM)
Which service pricing policy?
Pricing for Lambda
Pay for the EC2 instance once launched else you dont pay
Which service pricing policy?
Pricing for ECS
Pay for CPU + RAM used by each container. Dont pay by EC2 unlike ECS
Which service pricing policy?
Pricing for Fargate
Number and size of objects
Number and type(IN and OUT) requests
Data transfer OUT of S3 region (Sending IN data is free)
S3 Transfer AccelerationLifecycle transitions
Which service pricing policy?
Pricing for S3
Volume TypeSize (GB/month)
IOPS Snapshots
Data OUT and NOT Data IN
Which service pricing policy?
Pricing for EBS(Elastic Block Store)
Per hours billing
Database characteristics
Purchase type - On demand or ReservedBackup Storage - No charge upto 100% of the db storage for the region
No of Input and Output requests per month
Additional storage
Deployment type - Single or Multi AZ
Data OUT and NOT Data IN
What service pricing model?
Pricing for RDS
Pricing by region
No of HTTP/HTTPS requests
Data OUT and NOT Data IN
What service pricing model?
Pricing for CloudFront