Billing and Pricing Flashcards
What are the payment options offered in E2?
Spot instances, on-demand, reserved, dedicated host, savings plan, dedicated instances and capacity
What is the most comprehensive method of tracking cost in AWS?
Cost & usage reports
What is a high level visual method of tracking costs in AWS with a monthly estimate of costs?
Cost explorer
How is a user charged for a on demand EC2 instance?
Time (per second with a minimum spend of 1 minute)
Capacity
Region
OS and software
Instance type and size
What percentage discount is a reserved EC2 instance?
up to 75%
What percentage discount is a spot EC2 instance?
up to 90%
How is a user charged for Lambda?
Per call
Duration combined with Memory allocation
How is a user charged for S3 and EFS?
Storage class
No. and size of object/s
No. and type of request/s
Data out of S3
Transfer acceleration
Lifecycle transitions
How is a user charged for RDS?
Time (per h)
Engine
Size
Memory class
On demand or reserved
What is a EC2 savings plan?
Up to 72% discount commit 1 to 3 years to selected instance families in a Region
What is the compute savings plan?
Up to 66% discount for EC2, Fargate and Lambda for a 1 or 3 year commitment
What services are part of the free tear and what is completely free compared to pay for resource?
completely free:
IAM
VPC
Consolidated Billing
pay for resource:
Elastic Beanstalk
Cloud Formation
ASGs
EC2 (t2 micro 1 y)
S3
EBS
ELB
Data Transfer
Which AWS service can help you create data-driven business cases for transitioning your business from on-premises to AWS Cloud?
Migration Evaluator
What region is CloudWatch billing metric data stored?
US East (N.Virginia)
What budget types can be created under AWS Budgets?
Cost
Usage
Reservation
Savings Plan Budgets
