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
2
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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
3
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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
4
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On-Demand Instances
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- Pay as you go
5
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Reserved Instances
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- Save when you commit to resource usage
6
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Savings Plans
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- Save when you commit to hourly spend
7
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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
11
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Capacity Reservations
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- Reserve compute capacity in advance
12
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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
13
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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