Billing and Pricing Flashcards by Host Mom

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

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What are the offerings of the free tier that expire after 12 months?

(all have limits)

EC2

Amazon RDS

Cloudfront

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

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

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Linux EC2 instances are charged by the _____ and Windows instances are currently charged by the _____

minute

hour

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Is it possible to get custom pricing for AWS?

Yes for huge accounts

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

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

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What are the three fundamental charges for AWS?

Compute

Storage

Data Out (In free)

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

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

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

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)

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What determines S3 prices

Storage class (Standard or IA)

Storage Amount

Requests (GET, PUT, COPY)

Data Transfer (in free, out costs)

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

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)

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What determines CloudFront pricing?

Traffic Distribution

Requests

Data Transfer Out

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What are the available support plans, currently?

Basic

Developer

Business

Enterprise

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What are the characteristics of the Basic Support Plan?

Free

Forums Only

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What are the characteristics of the Developer Support Plan?

$29/month

Business Hour by Email

1 person - unlimited cases

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

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