Billing Flashcards

Billing

1
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Allows to manage multiple accounts as Global Service
Consolidated Billing
Aggregate Usage
Pooling of reserved EC2 instances
Use of service control policies(SCP)

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AWS Organizations

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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

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SCP (Service control policies)

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3
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Combined Usage - Share volume pricing, reserved instances, savings plan discount
One bill

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Advantages of consolidated billing

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4
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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?

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AWS Control Tower

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5
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Share resources(owned by your account) with other accounts

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AWS RAM (Resource access manager)

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6
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Self Service Portal to launch AWS services (pre configured by cloudformation templates) by the users
To use pre-defined tracks defined by admins

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AWS Service Catalog

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7
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  1. 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
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Pricing Models

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8
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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?

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Save when you reserve

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9
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Pay per call + Pay per duration (times * RAM)

Which service pricing policy?

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Pricing for Lambda

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10
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Pay for the EC2 instance once launched else you dont pay

Which service pricing policy?

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Pricing for ECS

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11
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Pay for CPU + RAM used by each container. Dont pay by EC2 unlike ECS

Which service pricing policy?

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Pricing for Fargate

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12
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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?

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Pricing for S3

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13
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Volume TypeSize (GB/month)
IOPS Snapshots
Data OUT and NOT Data IN

Which service pricing policy?

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Pricing for EBS(Elastic Block Store)

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14
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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?

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Pricing for RDS

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15
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Pricing by region
No of HTTP/HTTPS requests
Data OUT and NOT Data IN

What service pricing model?

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Pricing for CloudFront

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16
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Talking using private IP between instances in same or different AZs is free
Across region talking between EC2 instances is charged

What service pricing model?

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Pricing for networking

17
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You commit for a fixed price / hours for an instance family and irrespective of instance size, tenancy and OS
For which service this pri cing plan is for?

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Savings plan EC2

18
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You commit for a fixed price / hours and irrespective of instance family, size, tenancy, OS and region
It covers EC2, Fargate, Lambda

What type of plan it is called?

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Savings plan for compute

19
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Savings plan for ML

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SageMaker

20
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Supported resources to suggest cost optimization EC2, EC2 ASG, EBS Volumes and Lambda Fx

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AWS Compute optimizer

21
Q

To estimate cost in AWS and can be used by who does not have AWS account

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Pricing Calculator

22
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Billing Dashboard, Cost Allocation Tag, Cost and Usgae Report and Cost Explorer

What is it called?

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Track Cost

23
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Billing Alarms and Budgets

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Monitor Cost against cost plan

24
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Used for tracking cost. Shows when, why and how much the cost was incurred
Can be integrated with Athena, QuickSight or RedShift

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Cost usage report

25
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High level tracking compred to Cost usage report
Forcast the bill upto 12 months based on past usage
Can suggest Savings plan for reserved instances

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Cost Explorer

26
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Alarm when cost exceeds the budget or forcast exceeds the budget

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AWS Budgets

27
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Uses ML to detect cost anaomaly
Monitor cost->Get Alerted->RCA

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AWS cost anomaly detection

28
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Notify when you are close to your service quota value threashold
Create CloudWatch Alarms
Request to increase service quota

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AWS Service Quotas

29
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High level AWS account assessment
Recommendation on 5 categories:-Cost Optimizations-Performance-Security-Fault Tolerance-Service Limits
7 Core checks for basic and developer plans-
S3 bucket permissions - Making sure bucket is not public-
Security group, making sure that some ports are not unrestricted, such as SSH.-
IAM Use so making sure that we have at least one,-IAM user in our accounts. -
Ensuring we don’t have any EBS public snapshots-
Ensuring we do not have any RDS public snapshots-
Looking at service limits in AWS
Full Checks for business and enterprise plans-
Full checks in all 5 categories above-
Set cloudwatch alarms- Programatic access to AWS Support API

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Trusted Advisor

30
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  1. 24/7 access to customer service and documentation2. AWS Trusted Advisor - 7 core checks3. AWS PHD
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Basic support plan

31
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  1. Business hour email access2. Unlimited access to cases and 1 primary contact3. Response time <12 hrs to <24 hrs
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Develper support plan

32
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  1. Full access to AWS Trusted Advisor + API access2. 24/7 phone, email and chat access3. Unlimited access to cases and unlimited contacts4. Infrastructure event management for additional fee5. Response time <1 to <24 hrs
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Business support plan

33
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  1. Access to a pool of technical account managers (TAMs)2. Concierge support team (for billing)3. Infrastructure event management and well architected and operations review4. Response time <30 mins to <4 hrs
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Enterprise on-ramp support plan

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1 Access to designated technical account manager (TAM)2. Concierge support team (for billing)3. Infrastructure event management and well architected and operations review4. Response time <15 mins to <4 hrs

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Enterprise support plan