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
What are the characteristics of the Business Support Plan?
$100/month
24x7, email, chat, phone
Unlimited contacts
Unlimited Cases
What are the characteristics of the Enterprise Support Plan?
$15,000/month
24 x 7 email, chat, phone
Dedicated Acct Manager (TAM)
Unlimited Contacts, Cases
What is the response time for Basic support plan?
None
What is the response time for Developer support plan?
General Guidance = < 24 business hours
System Impaired = < 12 business hours
What is the response time for Business support plan?
General Guidance = < 24 hours
System Impaired = < 12 hours
Production System Impaired = < 4 hours
Production System Down = < 1 hour
What is the response time for Enterprised support plan? (EXAM *)
General Guidance = < 24 hours
System Impaired = < 12 hours
Production System Impaired = < 4 hours
Production System Down = < 1 hour
Business-critical system down = < 15 minutes
Can applied tags be inherited?
Yes, where a service provisions other resources, E;G
Autoscaling
Cloudformation
Elastic Beanstalk
What is AWS Organizations?
Account Management Service
Consolidate multiple AWS accounts
Centrally Manage
What is the rollup structure for AWS Organizations?
Accounts roll up to Org Units
Org Units roll up to Root
Policies applied at any level
In consolidated billing what are the characteristics of the root account?
Known as the Paying Account
Linked accounts roll up
All charges flow through that account
Max of 20 linked accounts
What are the advantages of using Consolidated Billing?
One bill per AWS account
Easy to track charges
Easy cost allocation
Volume discounts for all linked accts
Spread reserved EC2 instances
Aggregation into CloudTrail
What are the best practices for the paying account in consolidated billing?
Enable MFA
Strong/Complex passwords
Do NOT deploy resources with this account
When creating an AWS Organization, what are the two choices?
All features
Consolidated billing only
What is the purpose of creating OUs as part of your AWS Organization?
Applying security policies to an individual OU
What are Quickstarts?
Templates in Cloudformation that easily provision infrastructures.
Best practices
Security
Scalability
All necessary components
What does the AWS Simple Monthly Calendar do?
Allows you to model infrastructure options to determine monthly pricing estimate.
Does not provide Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
What does the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator Do?
Allows you to determine your on-prem costs vs projected AWS costs for the same thing. Broken down by
Server
Storage
Network
IT-Labor
What are the AWS Key principles of pricing?
Understand the fundamentals
Start early with cost optimization
Maximize the power of flexibility
Use the right pricing model for the job
What does Amazon mean by “Start early with cost optimization”?
Put cost and visibility control mechanisms in place before the environment grows large and complex.
What does Amazon mean by the pricing principle of “maximizing the power of flexibility”?
Paying for services as-needed and when needed allows your business to focus on innovation and invention
What does Amazon mean by the principle of “using the right pricing model for the job?” (applies to all offerings)
Choosing on demand, dedicated instances, spot instances, reserved
What is the pricing model for Lambda?
Nunmber of Requests
Free - 1 million requests/month
$0.20 per million after
Duration
400,000 GB Seconds/month
Up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time
.00001667 per GB seconds after
