Billing and Linking AWS Accounts

Question 1

Consolidated Billing

Answer 1

not used for share or controlled resources.

Question 2

Volume Discounts

Answer 2

aws combines service usage from all accounts and applies a discount whenever applicable.

Question 3

Ec2 Reserved Instances

Answer 3

• • not virtual machines, they are a capacity reservation.
• • if a linked account has unused reserved instances, other linked accounts running on-demand instances will be billed under the reserved instance price(if they match the instance type, region, and availability zone).

Question 4

RDS DB instances

Answer 4

• • Same as reserved instances

- - Must also match DB engine, instance class, deployment type, and license model.

Question 5

AWS Credits

Answer 5

credits earned while linked will be applied to the consolidated bill.

Question 6

Security

Answer 6

Payer accounts have detailed information about other AWS accounts and access to payment information
use strong passwords
use multi-factor authentication

Question 7

Limits

Answer 7

20 consolidated accounts that can be linked to a paying account.