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Billing and Pricing Flashcards

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The 3 fundamental drivers of cost

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  1. Compute - hourly from launch to termination
  2. Storage - data you store in the cloud
  3. Outbound data transfer - data in flight moving between systems
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EC2 On-Demand Pricing

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Pay by the hour or by the second without pre-paying

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EC2 Savings Plan

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Commit to compute usage measured per hour for 1 or 3 year term

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EC2 Reserved Instances

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Commit to use for 1 or 3 years, pay regardless of usage

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EC2 Spot Instances

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Instances only launch if spare capacity is available

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EC2 Dedicated Hosts

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An entire physical server just for you

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Lambda pricing

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  1. number of requests (includes testing)
  2. code execution time
  3. 1 million requests always free
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S3 Pricing

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  1. storage class
  2. storage - number and size of objects
  3. data transfer - data transferred out
  4. request and data retrieval - requests for data and amount of requests
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RDS Pricing

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  1. Running Clock Hours
  2. Type of database
  3. Storage
  4. Purchase Type
  5. Database Count
  6. API Requests
  7. Deployment Type
  8. Data Transfer
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Application Discovery Service

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Helps you plan migration projects to the AWS Cloud.
- plan migration projects
- used to estimate TCO
- works with other services to migrate servers

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AWS Price List API

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allows you to query the price of AWS services
- Query using JSON or HTML
- retrieve price alerts when prices change

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Budgets

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Allows you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount
- improve planning and cost control
- cost, usage, and reservation budgets
- budget alerts

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Types of Budgets

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  • cost budget
  • usage budget
  • reservation budget - Set Reserved Instances or Savings Plans utilization or coverage targets
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Cost and Usage Report

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Contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data

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Service to view the most granular data about your AWS bill

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Cost and Usage Report

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Cost Explorer

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Allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time
- Visualize costs over time
- View past 12 months
- Forecast up to 3 months

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Organizations

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Allows you to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella
- group accounts
- single payment for all accounts
- automate account creation
- allocate resources and apply policies across accounts

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Service Control Policies (SCPs)

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Used to enforce permissions you want everyone in the organization to follow

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How do organizations reduce cost by sharing resources?

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Reserved Instance (RI) Sharing - allows all accounts in the organization to receive the hourly cost-benefit of RIs purchased by any other account.

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Control Tower

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Helps you ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies
- Helps set up new accounts using a multi-account strategy
- Works directly with AWS organizations
- Enforces the best use of services across accounts
- Provides a dashboard to manage accounts

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Which service would help to disallow public write access to all S3 buckets across all accounts in an organization?

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Control Tower

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Systems Manager

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Gives you visibility and control over your AWS resources
- automate operational tasks
- group resources and take action
- patch and run commands on multiple EC2 instances or manage RDS instances

23
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Which service would allow you to deploy operating system and software patches automatically across a large group of instances?

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Systems manager

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Trusted Advisor

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Provide real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices
- Checks for unrestricted access on specific ports in EC2 (Free)
- Checks S3 bucket permissions to determine if public access (Free)
- Checks for MFA on root user (Free)
- Checks IAM password policy (Enterprise, Business)
- Checks for RDS public snapshots (Free)
- Checks for service usage greater than 80% (Enterprise, Business)
- Checks for exposed access keys (Enterprise, Business)
- Checks for CloudFront Content Delivery optimization (Enterprise, Business)

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License Manager

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Helps you manage software licenses
- Manage on-prem and AWS licenses
- Track licenses for Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and more

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Certificate Manager

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Helps you provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates
- Provides public and private certificates for free
- Integrates with Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, and more

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Managed Services

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Helps you efficiently operate your AWS infrastructure
- augments internal staff
- provides ongoing management of your infrastructure
- reduces operational risks and overhead

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Professional Services

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Helps enterprise customers move to a cloud-based operating model

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AWS Partner Network (APN)

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Global community of approved partners that offer software solutions and consulting services for AWS
- Offers technology partners that provide software solutions
- Provides consulting partners that offer professional services
- Find approved vendors with deep AWS expertise

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Marketplace

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A digital catalog of prebuilt solutions you can purchase or license. You may also sell your own solutions to other via the marketplace.

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Personal Health Dashboard

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Alerts you to events that might impact your AWS environment
- provides troubleshooting guidance
- feedback tailored to your specific environment

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Basic Support Plan

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Free for all AWS accounts

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Developer Support Plan

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Starts at $29 a month and is recommended for testing and development

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Business Support Plan

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Starts at $100 a month and is recommended for production workloads

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Enterprise Support Plan

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Starts at $15,000 a month and is recommended for business or mission-critical production workloads

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Three types of support cases

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  1. Account and Billing - can be opened by all customers
  2. Service Limit Increases - can be opened by all customers
  3. Technical Support - Can only be opened by developer, business, and enterprise plans
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Basic Support Plan Customer Service

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24/7 access via email only - for billing and service limit issues

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Developer Support Plan Customer Service

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  • Response Times: <24 hours for general guidance, < 12 hours for system impairment
  • 1 primary contact
  • unlimited cases
  • Cloud Support Engineers: cloud support business hours via email only
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Business Support Plan

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  • Response Times: < 24 hours general guidance, < 4 hours prod impaired, < 12 hours system impaired, < 1 prod down
  • unlimited contacts
  • unlimited cases
  • full set of trusted advisor checks
  • cloud support engineers - 24/7 access via email, phone, chat

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