Design Cost-Optimized Architectures Flashcards
lets you establish a secure and private tunnel from your network or device to the AWS global network.
Amazon Virtual Private Network (Amazon VPN)
AWS Managed VPN lets you reuse existing VPN equipment and processes, and reuse existing internet connections.
It is an AWS-managed high availability VPN service.
It supports static routes or dynamic Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peering and routing policies.
A networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them using private IPv4 addresses or IPv6 addresses.
VPC Peering
A cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.
AWS Direct Connect
Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment. This can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.
What determines the costs associated with CloudFormation templates?
There is no cost for templates, but when deployed, the resources created may accumulate charges.
______________ allows you to automate the collection of metrics for underutilized and underperforming compute instances.
AWS Compute Optimizer
It can then generate recommendations for you to save money.
A service that gives you the ability to set custom cost and usage budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.
AWS Budgets
With AWS Budgets, you can also track your AWS usage and service costs, and see how much of your budget has been spent.
This is a detailed report of your AWS costs and usage that you can create. It lists AWS usage for each service category used by an account and its IAM users in hourly or daily line items, as well as any tags that you have activated for cost allocation.
AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)
The Cost and Usage Report can be delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify and then used with other AWS services such as Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight for further analysis.
_____________ is a fully managed service that provides developers and data scientists the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly.
AWS SageMaker
SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it easier to develop high-quality models.
You estimate the instances will complete the job from around 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. You don’t want the instances sitting idle for up to 9 hours until the next morning. What can you do to terminate these instances when they are done?
You can create a CloudWatch alarm that is triggered when the average CPU utilization percentage has been lower than 5% for 15 minutes and terminates the instance.
A tool that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. You can explore your cost trends by different dimensions, identify areas that need further inquiry, and see patterns over time.
AWS Cost Explorer
Some of the features provided by AWS Cost Explorer include the ability to:
Analyze your cost drivers and usage trends Forecast future AWS costs Create custom reports Detect anomalies in your spending
This tool helps you model your future cost estimates for AWS services. You can configure and estimate the costs for AWS services based on your expected usage.
AWS Pricing Calculator
It allows you to:
Explore the cost implications of different architectures Make cost-optimized architectural decisions Create detailed cost reports with breakdowns by different categories
A feature that allows you to receive notifications when your AWS charges exceed a threshold that you define. This can help you monitor your AWS costs and avoid any surprises on your bill.
AWS Billing Alert
You can create billing alerts for estimated charges for your entire AWS account, or for each linked member account in an organization in AWS Organizations. The alerts are delivered to you via Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).
How does AWS Billing Alert compare to AWS Budgets?
Comparing to AWS Billing Alerts, AWS Budgets is more comprehensive and offers better granularity for managing costs and usage.
While Billing Alerts primarily lets you track overall spending, Budgets lets you define cost, usage, RI utilization, and RI coverage budgets with customizable alerting.
A managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.
AWS Shield
AWS Shield Standard: This is automatically included at no extra cost beyond what you already pay for AWS services. It protects applications from common, most frequently observed DDoS attacks. AWS Shield Advanced: This is a premium, subscription-based service that offers cost protection, DDoS cost protection, advanced threat intelligence, 24/7 DDoS response team (DRT) access, web application firewall integration, and DDoS mitigation capacity to protect against larger and more sophisticated attacks. It's intended for higher-risk, high-value applications and comes with a higher cost.
