Billing and Pricing

Question 1

Types if EC2 pricing models

Answer 1

• on demand instances
• savings plans
• reserved instances
• spot instances
• dedicated hosts
• dedicated intsance
• capacity reservations

Question 2

On-Demand Instances

Answer 2

Pay, by the second, for the instances that you launch.

• applications are ran uninterruply

Question 3

Savings Plans

Answer 3

Reduce your Amazon EC2 costs by making a commitment to a consistent amount of usage, in USD per hour, for a term of 1 or 3 years.

Question 4

Reserved Instances

Answer 4

Reduce your Amazon EC2 costs by making a commitment to a consistent instance configuration, including instance type and Region, for a term of 1 or 3 years.

Question 5

Spot Instances

Answer 5

Request unused EC2 instances, which can reduce your Amazon EC2 costs significantly.
- its cost effective
- its for regular jopbs
- its suited for data analysis, batch jobs, background processing, and optional tasks

Question 6

Dedicated Hosts

Answer 6

Pay for a physical host that is fully dedicated to running your instances, and bring your existing per-socket, per-core, or per-VM software licenses to reduce costs

Question 7

Dedicated Instances

Answer 7

Pay, by the hour, for instances that run on single-tenant hardware.

Question 8

Capacity Reservations

Answer 8

Reserve capacity for your EC2 instances in a specific Availability Zone for any duration.

Question 9

AWS Orgs

Answer 9

• it helps configure policies related to different services centrally.

Question 10

AWS Cost Explorer

Answer 10

• it allows the user to generate a graphical representation of their building and usage over time.
• It’s gonna create user defined custom forecasts for future usage patterns

Question 11

AWS Pricing Calculator

Answer 11

It helps create estimated usage costs for all resources to be deployed on AWS cloud infrastructure.

Question 12

Amazon Lightsail

Answer 12

It is a virtual private server which can be used to quickly launch business applications in AWS cloud at a low cost.

Question 13

Savings Plan

Answer 13

• they are a flexible pricing model that offer cheaper prices on ec2, lambda ab fargate.
• commitment of 1-3 years`

Question 14

Consolidated billing

Answer 14

This applies when the user has multiple accts and would like to recieve one bill for all his accts

Question 15

AWS budgets

Answer 15

it enables you to enables you to create custom budgets to track AWS costs and usage

Question 16

AWS Bills

Answer 16

it will list the historical costs that would have been incurred over the past month with granular options

Question 17

AWS Cost Allocation Tags

Answer 17

allows you to categorize and track your AWS costs on a detailed level

Question 18

Amazon s3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

Answer 18

Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are designed to be the lowest-cost Amazon S3 storage classes, allowing you to archive large amounts of data at a very low cost.

Question 19

AWS Cost and Usage Reports

Answer 19

is your one-stop shop for accessing the most granular data about your AWS costs and usage

• You can also load your cost and usage information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS QuickSight, or a tool of your choice

Question 20

AWS Control Tower

Answer 20

AWS Control Tower is for customers who want to create or manage their multi-account AWS environment with best practices.

• An easy way to establish a landing zone that implements an AWS well-architected, multi-account environment and applies the AWS best practices.