Billing Flashcards
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Savings Plan
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- Commit a certain $ amount per hour for 1 or 3 years
- Easiest way to setup long-term commitments on AWS
- EC Saving Plan
- Compute Savings Plan
- Machine Learning Savings Plan
- Setup from AWS Cost Explorer console
1
Q
AWS Pricing Calculator
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Estimate cost for your solution architecture
2
Q
AWS Billing Dashboard
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- Show cost and usage for the month
- Month to date
- Forecast
3
Q
AWS Free Tier Dashboard
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Shows usage of free tier for the month
4
Q
Cost Allocation Tags
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- Track AWS costs on a detailed level
- AWS generated tags (sat with prefix aws:)
- User-defined tags (start with prefix **user:*)
5
Q
Tags
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- Organizing resources
- Resources created by CloudFormation are all tagged the same way
- Free naming convention
- Can be used to create Resource Groups
6
Q
Cost and Usage Reports
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- Dive deeper int AWS cost and usage
- Most comprehensive set of the AWS cost and usage data available
- Additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and reservations
- List useage for each service category used by an account and its user in hourly/daily line item and any cost allocation tags
- Can be integrated with Athena, Redshift, or QuickSight
7
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Cost Explorer
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Visualize, understand and manage your AWS costs and usage over time
* Create custom reports
* Monthly, hourly, resource level granulatity
* Analyze your data at a high level
* Choose an optimal Savings Plan
* Forecast usage up to 12 months based on previous usage
8
Q
AWS Budgets
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- Send alarms when cots/forecasts exceeds the budget
- Types (Usage, Cost, Reservation, Savings Plan)
- Up to 5 SNS notifications per budget
- Same options as AWS Cost Explorer
- 2 budgets are free, then $0.02 per day per budget
9
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AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
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- Continuously monitor cost and usage using ML to detect unusual spends
- Sends anomaly detection report with root -cause analysis
- Alerts with SNS
10
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AWS Service Quotas
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- Qutas are limits on things that can be run
- Notify you when close to a service quota value threshold
- CloudWatch Alarm
- Request quota increase or shutdown resources before limit is reached
11
Q
AWS Pricing Models
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- Pay as you go
- Save when you reserve
- Pay less by using more
- Pay less as AWS grows
12
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EC2 Savings Plan
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- Commit to a $ ammount pre hour for 1 to 3 years
- Up to 72% discount comparted to on-demand
- Commit to usage of individual instance families in a region (e.g. C5 or M5)
- Regardless of AZ, size, OS, or tenancy
- All upfront, partial upfront, no upfront
13
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EC2 Compute Savings Plan
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- Commit to a $ ammount pre hour for 1 to 3 years
- Up to a 66% discount comparted to on-demand
- Regardless of Family, Region, size, OS, tenancy, *computer options**
- Compute Options: EC2, Fargate, Lambda
14
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AWS Compute Optimizer
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- Reduce costs and improve performance by recommending optimal AWS resources for your workloads
- Help choose optimal config and right-size work loads (over/under provisioned)
- Use machine leaning to analyze resources’ configs and utilization CloudWatch metrics
- Lower costs by upt 25%
- export to S3
