Billing and Accounts Flashcards
AWS Pricing Calculator
A planning tool. AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS. You can model your solutions before building them, explore the price points and calculations behind your estimate, and find the available instance types and contract terms that meet your needs.
Use cases for Pricing Calculator
- Figure out your EC2 pricing model
- Compare service costs per region
- Estimate your AWS spend
AWS IQ
certified freelancer network
3 fundamental drivers of cost
- compute used
- storage used
- outbound data transfers
what are the 3 types of free offers?
- always free (like Lambda)
- free for 12 months
- free trial for a specific service
what affects S3 storage pricing?
- storage class
- number and size of objects
- data transferred out of the region
- requests made for data retrieval (and amount of requests)
what drives RDS pricing?
- running clock hours
- type of database
- storage
- purchase type
- database count
- API requests
- deployment type
- data transfer
TCO
Total Cost of Ownership is a financial estimate that helps you understand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS.
TCO Calculator
a deprecated tool for calculating TCO
Application Discovery Service
helps you plan migration projects to the AWS Cloud
what are some use cases for Application Discovery Service?
- plan migration projects
- works with other services to migrate servers
- used to estimate TCO
ways to reduce TCO?
- minimize capital expenditures
- utilize reserved instances
- right-size your resources
Budgets
allows you to set custom budgets that alert you
when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount.
3 types of Budgets
(1) cost
(2) usage
(3) reservation
Cost and Usage Report
contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data.
