Billing, Pricing, and Support Flashcards
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Billing, Pricing, and Support Domain
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- Compare AWS pricing models
- Understand resources for billing, budget, and cost management
- Identify AWS technical resources and support options
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AWS Billing Dashboard
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- Estimate and plan for your AWS costs
- Consolidate billing for multiple AWS accounts
- Alerts for usage thresholds
- Invoices after monthly billing period or when subscriptions or one-time purchases are made
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Types of Charges
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- Fundamental ways AWS charges are compute, storage, and data transfer
- Incoming data transfer is generally free
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On-Demand Instances
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- Pay as you go
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Reserved Instances
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- Save when you commit to resource usage
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Savings Plans
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- Save when you commit to hourly spend
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Spot Instances
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- Take advantage of unused AWS capacity
8
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Dedicated Hosts
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- Save by using your own licenses and utilizing dedicated hardware
9
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Dedicated Instances
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- Run Amazon EC2 instances on dedicated hardware
10
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AWS Free Tier
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- Always free
- Sometimes free
- Free trial
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Capacity Reservations
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- Reserve compute capacity in advance
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AWS Budgets
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- Set up custom to track your AWS resource costs and usage
- Send alerts when you exceed thresholds
- Respond with custom actions to prevent outages, insufficient resource use, and lack of coverage
- Receive AWS Budgets report daily, weekly, or monthly via email
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AWS Cost Explorer
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- Analyze AWS resource usage and create usage forecast costs
- Create custom usage reports
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AWS Cost and Usage Report (AWS CUR)
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- Provides AWS cost and usage data as a report
- Identify ways to optimize monthly AWS bills
- Provides metadata on AWS services, pricing, credits, fees, taxes, discounts, etc
- Utilize AWS cost allocation tags
- Integration with Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, or Amazon QuickSight
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AWS Billing Conductor
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- Analyze spending and bill for resource usage based on your defined rates
- Generate AWS cost and usage reports for each billing group
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AWS Pricing Calculator
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- Provides estimated AWS Cloud costs based on estimated resource usage from current infrastructure
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Consolidated Billing
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- Create a payer account that views and pays combined billing charges for all linked accounts
- Payer account can’t use other services
- Payer account can’t deploy services into the linked accounts
- Organization may be eligible for volume discounts
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Basic Support Plan
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- Free
- For experimenting or testing
- Account and billing inquiries and service quota increase requests
- Access to support forms, documentation, AWS Health Dashboard, and AWS Trusted Advisor checks
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Developer Support Plan
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- Minimum spend of $29 or 3% of monthly AWS charge
- For experimenting or testing
- Prioritized response on AWS re:Post and access to AWS Support App in Slack
- Unlimited support cases with business-hour email access to Cloud Support Associates
- Access to Support Automation Workflows (SAW) with AWSSupport prefix in AWS Support self-service runbooks
- Runbooks: help you proactively monitor and identify network issues, collect and analyze logs, and troubleshoot common issues with AWS resources
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Business Support Plan
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- Minimum recommended for those with production workloads in AWS
- Access to AWS Trust Advisor best practice checks
- Access to AWS Support API to automate support case management
- Access to AWS use-case guidance
- Access to Support Automation Workflows (SAW) with prefixes AWSSupport and AWSPremium Support
- Infrastructure event management for an additional fee
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Entereprise On-Ramp Support Plan
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- For those with production and/or business-critical workloads in AWS
- Access to consultative application architecture guidance
- Once a year access to architectural and scaling guidance for Infrastructure Event Management
- Access to a pool of Technical Account Managers (TAMs) and a Concierge Support Team
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Enterprise Support Plan
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- For this with business and/or mission-critical workloads in AWS
- Infrastructure event management
- Proactive workshops, reviews, and deep dives
- AWS Incident and Response service available for additional fee
- Assigned a Technical Account Manager (TAM)
- Receive prioritized recommendations from AWS Trusted Advisor Policy
- Access to online self-paced labs for employee training
