Billing and Pricing Flashcards
What is the AWS philosophy on pricing?
Start or stop using a product any time
End of month only pay for what you use
No long term contracts
What are the offerings of the free tier that expire after 12 months?
(all have limits)
EC2
S3
Amazon RDS
Cloudfront
What are the 5 basic AWS pricing policies?
Pay as you go
Pay less when you reserve
Pay less by using more
Pay less as AWS grows
Custom pricing
Linux EC2 instances are charged by the _____ and Windows instances are currently charged by the _____
minute
hour
Is it possible to get custom pricing for AWS?
Yes for huge accounts
What are the free services for AWS? (EXAM*)
VPC
Elastic Beanstalk (not the provisioned resources)
CloudFormation (provisions not free)
IAM
Auto Scaling (extra instances not free)
Opsworks
Consolidated Billing
What are the three fundamental charges for AWS?
Compute
Storage
Data Out (In free)
What specific things determine EC2 charges?
Clock hours of server
Machine Configuration
Instance Type
Number of instances
Load Balancing
Detailed Monitoring
Auto Scaling Instances
Elastic IP Addresses
OS and Software Pkg
What is the pricing options for EC2 reserved instances?
1-year (no down payment)
1-year (partial down)
1-year (100% down)
3-year (partial down)
3-year(100% down)
What determines S3 prices
Storage class (Standard or IA)
Storage Amount
Requests (GET, PUT, COPY)
Data Transfer (in free, out costs)
What determines RDS price?
Server clock hours
DB options (Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, License Type)
Size of instance
Number of instances
Provisioned storage
Additional Storage
Requests
Deployment Type (Multi-AZ, Read Replicas)
Data Transfer (out)
What determines CloudFront pricing?
Traffic Distribution
Requests
Data Transfer Out
What are the available support plans, currently?
Basic
Developer
Business
Enterprise
What are the characteristics of the Basic Support Plan?
Free
Forums Only
What are the characteristics of the Developer Support Plan?
$29/month
Business Hour by Email
1 person - unlimited cases