CPC Prep Pricing Flashcards
What are the six free services on AWS?
- Amazon VPC
- Elastic Beanstalk
- CloudFormation
- IAM
- Auto Scaling
- Consolidated Billing
What are the Amazon EC2 Pricing Components?
- Clock hours of server uptime
- Instance configurations
- Instance Type
- Number of Instances
- Load Balancing
- Detailed Monitoring - 1 minute increments
- Auto Scaling resources created
- Elastic IP addresses (charged if allocated but not used)
- Operating systems and software package
Which EC2 pricing model is a pay for compute or database capacity with no long-term commitments or upfront costs and is good for applications with short-term, spiky or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted?
On-deman
What EC2 pricing model provides a significant discount for capacity provisioned ahead of time, is applied to a specific Availability Zone, and is good for applications that have predictable usage?
Reserved Instances
What are the three EC2 pricing model Reserved Instances payment options?
- No Upfront
- Partial Upfront
- All Upfront
What are the three types of Reserved Instances?
- Standard
- Convertible
- Scheduled
Which Reserved Instance type instance size can me modified during the term, the instance family cannot be modified, cannot be exchanged, and can be sold in the Reserved Instance Marketplace?
Standard
Which Reserved Instance can be exchanged during the term with new attributes including instance family, instance type, platform, scope, or tenancy, and cannot be sold on the Instance Marketplace?
Convertible
Which Reserved Instance type enables you to purchase reservations that reoccur on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis with a specified start time and duration for a one-year team?
Scheduled
Which EC2 Pricing Model allows you to purchase spare computing capacity with no upfront commitment at discounted hourly rates and is recommend for applications that have flexible start and end times and users with urgent computing needs for a lot of additional capacity?
Spot
What EC2 pricing model is suited for batch computing workloads that requires significant compute power and it can be stopped by AWS at any time with a 2 minute notice?
Spot
Which EC2 pricing model runs on your VPC and an EC2 server is dedicated to a single customer?
Dedicated host
Which EC2 Pricing Model enables you to leverage existing server-bound software licenses and is good to meet compliance requirements?
Dedicated Hosts
What do you pay for when using AWS Lambda?
- Requests
- Duration
Pay only for what you use and charged based on the number of requests for functions and the time it takes to execute
What do you pay for with Amazon ECS?
EC2 Instances
What do you pay for with Fargate?
- VCPU
2. Memory resources
What offers flexible pricing model that offer low prices for EC2, Lambda, and Fargate usage?
Savings Plan
What flexible pricing model provides a savings when you commit to consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term?
Savings Plan
What are the two categories available in the Savings Plan?
- Compute savings
2. EC2 Instance Savings Plan
What features do you pay for with Amazon S3?
Storage - price per class Storage quantity Number of requests Lifecycle transition requests data transfer out Transfer acceleration Storage Management pricing for some additional features
What pricing feature allows queries to run directly on data stored on Glacier without having to retrieve the archive?
Amazon Glacier select