Cost Accounting and Management

Question 1

For consolidated billing how many account are supported by default

Answer 1

20

Question 2

How an you reserve ec2 capacity for predictable demands

Answer 2

By using scheduled RI’s

Question 3

What is the typical savings rates for standard and convertible RI’s

Answer 3

Standard up to 70% and convertible is 45%

Question 4

Is it possible to change the instance size of a standard RI?

Answer 4

Yes but requires a request, must be in the same instance family, linux is only supported and based on normalization factors such as 2 x m4.large = 1 x m4.2large

Question 5

What can you change with convertible RI’s?

Answer 5

Can change instance types, OS and generation. The value of the instances must be the same or greater. Also for term refreshed the later date will always applied if two are merged.

Question 6

What attributes of RDS RI’s are included

Answer 6

DB Engine, instance class, deployment type, license model, region

Question 7

What happens when the attributes of RDS RI’s are not met by the running instances

Answer 7

Standard on-demand charges

Question 8

T/F. Redhat RI can be modified

Answer 8

False

Question 9

EC2 instance types

Answer 9

DR MC GIFTPX
D2 - Dense Storage, File Server, Hadoop, Data WH
R4 - RAM
M4 - Main
C4 - Compute
G2 - GPU
I3- IOPS, NoSQLDB's, DataWH
F1 - FPGAs
T2 - Tini bursting 
P2 - Pic/Graphics - ML, Mining
X1  - Xtreme memory - SAP Hana/Spark