chapter 2 Flashcards
What is the value of the value of the 12-month Free Tier?
An offering of light services that get you comfortable with the AWS environment so you can learn how it can be used to host your applications.
Example offerings are the t2.micro EC2 instance type and a 30 GB SSH EBS volume.
What is the value of permanent Free Tier services?
An offering of low-volume consumption resources to give you the opportunity to launch proof-of-concept deployments.
Offerings include the retrieval of up to 10 GB of stored objects from Glacier or 62,000 outbound emails through Amazon SES.
What are ways to to access Amazon’s resource pricing online documentation? Why is it important to accurately understand pricing for services?
Visit https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/
Use this format: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/
You must understand the pricing for the particular level of resource you launch within a particular AWS Region for estimate how deployment will occur.
Service resources are billed by metrics unique to its characteristics.
How does the the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator accurately model multitiered application stack pricing?
It has pricing for all variations of the core AWS services prebuilt into it to accurately model pricing for multiple resource configurations.
Why is the use of AWS services is limited by default?
Access to all service resources is restricted by default limits. To bypass limits you can reach out to AWS Support to request increases.
What is the value of cost management tools?
To avoid costly cloud overspends.
AWS budgets can be configured to send alerts when your resource consumption approaches or passes a preset limit.
Cost Explorer provides visualizations to more easily monitor historical
and current costs.
Cost and usage reports can send in-depth and ongoing CSV-formatted data to Redshift or QuickSight for analysis.
Use cost allocation tags to more effectively track and manage the source of account costs.
Security and operations of multiple AWS accounts controlled by a single company can be managed through AWS Organizations.
