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Domain 4.0 Billing and Pricing Flashcards

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You need to launch a new EC2 instance for a beta program which is scheduled to change its instance family, operating system and tenancy exactly 3 months after its trial period. Which type of Reserved Instance (RI) should you use?

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Convertible RI

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  • 7 core checks
  • business hours not 24x7
  • unlimited cases, only 1 primary contact
  • general guidance: <24 hours
  • system impaired: <12 hours
  • architectural guidance: general
  • access to support automation workflows with prefixes AWSSupport
  • NO Programmatic Case Management
  • NO Third-Party Software Support
  • NO TAM
  • NO Training
  • NO Account Assistance
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Developer Support Plan

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  • Centrally Manage Policies across Multiple AWS Accounts
  • Automate AWS Account Creation and Management
  • Consolidate Billing across Multiple AWS Accounts
  • Govern Access to AWS Services, Resources, and Regions
  • Configure AWS Services Across Multiple Accounts
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AWS Organizations

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Gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define

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AWS Budgets

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An online tool that provides you real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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Lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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A company is currently using an On-Demand EC2 instance for their application which they plan to migrate to a Reserved EC2 Instance to save on cost. Which of the following is the most cost-effective option if the application being hosted would be used for more than 3 years?

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All Upfront, Standard Reserved Instance pricing for a 3-year term

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You pay for compute capacity per hour or per second, depending on which instances you run. No long-term commitments or upfront payments are required.

You can increase or decrease your compute capacity to meet the demands of your application and only pay the specified hourly rates for the instance you use

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On-Demand

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allows vou to request
spare Amazon EC2 computing capacity for up to 90% off of the demand price. The only issue is that AWS can reclaim the instance because its needing resources for another task. Which will cause it to stop.
Ideal for only applications that can handle interruptions. This also does not require contract or commitment.

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Spot Instance

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discount pricing model that enables organizations to save up to 75% on On-Demand Instances when they purchase them in advance for a fixed term of one or three years.

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Reserved Instance

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  • Most expensive
  • dedicated servers
  • can be on-demand or reserved (up to 70%)
  • when you need a guarantee of isolate hardware (enterprise requirements)
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Dedicated

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Which Amazon EC2 instance purchasing option lets you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud and provides up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices?

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Spot Instance

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A Cost Management Tools allows you to track your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) usage and view the discounted RI rate that was charged to your resources?

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AWS Cost and Usage report

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Is your one-stop-shop for accessing the most granular data about your AWS costs and usage. You can also load your cost and usage information into Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, AWS QuickSight, or a tool of your choice

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AWS Cost and Usage report

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with AWS Cost and Usage Report, you can do the following:

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  1. Access comprehensive AWS cost and usage information
  2. Track your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) usage
  3. Leverage strategic data integrations
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Allows you to track the combined costs of all the linked AWS accounts in your organization.

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Consolidated Billing

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Is capable of inspecting your AWS environment and making recommendations to lower expenditures, improve system performance and reliability, and close security gaps?

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Trusted Advisor list of checks categories:

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  1. Cost Optimization
  2. Security
  3. Fault Tolerance
  4. Performance
  5. Service Limits
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The benefits of using Consolidated billing in AWS?

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  1. One bill
  2. Easy tracking
  3. Combined Usage
  4. No extra fee
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Basic support plan features:

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  1. Customer service
  2. Support forums
  3. Service health checks
  4. Documentation, whitepapers, and best-practice guides
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Business and Enterprise support plan features:

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  1. Use-case guidance
  2. AWS Trusted Advisor
  3. An API for interacting with Support Center and Trusted Advisor
  4. Third-party software support
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These types do not have access to the AWS Support API

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Basic and Developer support plans

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The most cost-effective AWS Support Plan to use if you need access to AWS Support API for programmatic case management?

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Business support plans

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Recommended if you are experimenting or testing in AWS

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Developer Support Plan

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Recommended if you have production workloads in AWS

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Business Support Plan

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Recommended if you have business and/or mission critical workloads in AWS

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Enterprise Support Plan

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  • Full set of checks
  • 24x7 to cloud support engineers
  • unlimited cases/unlimited contacts (IAM supported)
  • contextual to your use-cases
  • interoperability and configuration guidance and troubleshooting
  • access to infrastructure event management for additional fee
  • access to support automation workflows with prefixes AWSSupport and AWSPremiumSupport
  • NO TAM
  • NO Training
  • NO Account Assistance
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Business Support Plan

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  • It has EVERYTHING
  • designated TAM
  • access to online self-paced labs
  • concierge support team
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Enterprise Support Plan

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29
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Best type of instance purchasing option to choose if you will run an EC2 instance for 3 months to perform a job that is uninterruptible?

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On-Demand

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30
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An AWS Cost Management tools enable you to forecast future costs and usage of your AWS resources based on your past consumption?

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Cost Explorer

31
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A fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts of any time-series data, such as retail demand, manufacturing demand, travel demand, revenue, IT capacity, logistics, and web traffic. Not considered as one of the AWS Cost Management tools

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Amazon Forecast

32
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It lists your 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 purposes

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AWS Cost and Usage report

33
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Used to estimate your AWS bill by manually entering your planned resources by service

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AWS Pricing Calculator

34
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Case Severity / Response Times*

Developer Support Plan

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General guidance: < 24 hours**

System impaired: < 12 hours**

35
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Case Severity / Response Times*

Business Support Plan

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General guidance: < 24 hours

System impaired: < 12 hours

Production system impaired: < 4 hours

Production system down: < 1 hour

36
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Case Severity / Response Times*

Enterprise Support Plan

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General guidance: < 24 hours

System impaired: < 12 hours

Production system impaired: < 4 hours

Production system down: < 1 hour

Business-critical system down: < 15 minutes

37
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Which of the following are the characteristics of Amazon EC2 Convertible Reserved Instances?

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  1. Has the capability to change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of Reserved Instances of equal or greater value
  2. Allows the change of instance family, operating system, tenancy, and payment option
38
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Which of the following actions will AWS Charge you for?

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Transfer of EC2 files between two AWS Regions

39
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The most cost-effective instance purchasing option for hosting an application which will run non-interruptible workloads for a period of three years?

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Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instances

40
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This will just enable you to purchase capacity reservations that recur on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, with a specified start time and duration for a one-year term only and not for a three-year term. This is more suitable for non-continuous workloads which runs on a specific time of the day only

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Amazon EC2 Schedules Reserved Instances

41
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In Amazon EC2, which pricing construct adjusts its price based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?

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Spot Instance

42
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AWS Free Tier three types of offers:

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  1. Always Free
  2. 12 Months Free
  3. Trials
43
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How AWS Pricing works

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  1. Pay for what you use
  2. Pay less when you reserve
  3. Pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more
44
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  1. Users who prefer the low cost and flexibility of Amazon EC2 without upfront payment or long-term
    commitments
  2. Applications with short-term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted
  3. Applications being developed or tested on Amazon EC2 for the first time
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On-Demand

45
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Amazon EC2 RI Types

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  1. Standard RIs
  2. Convertible RIs
  3. Scheduled RIs
46
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These provide the most significant discount (up to 72% off On-Demand) and are best suited for steady-state usage

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Standard RIs

47
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Instances provide you with a significant discount (up to 66%)
and the capability to change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of Reserved Instances of equal or greater value. Like Standard RIs, These are best suited for steady-state usage

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Convertible RIs

48
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These are available to launch within the time windows you reserve. This option allows you to match your capacity reservation to a predictable recurring schedule that only requires a fraction of a day, a week, or a month

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Scheduled RIs

49
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A complimentary service to create data-driven business cases for AWS Cloud planning and migration

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Migration Evaluator

50
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For Amazon S3 pricing, consider the following cost components

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  1. Storage
  2. Requests and data retrievals
  3. Data transfer
  4. Management and replication
51
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General purpose storage for any type of data, typically used for frequently accessed data

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S3 Standard

52
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Automatic cost savings for data with unknown or changing access patterns

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S3 Intelligent - Tiering

53
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For long lived but infrequently accessed data that needs millisecond access

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S3 Standard - Infrequent Access

54
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storage class designed for customers who want a lower-cost option for infrequently accessed data, but do not require the multiple Availability Zone

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S3 One Zone - Infrequent Access

55
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For long-term backups and archives with retrieval option from 1 minute to couple hours

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S3 Glacier

56
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For long-term data archiving that is accessed once or twice in a year and can be restored within 12 hours

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S3 Glacier Deep Archive

57
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How can your RDS production instances be more cost-effective when they will be used for a long period of time?

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You can avail of reserved instances to get discounts on your instance costs

58
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These tools do not provide Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations unlike AWS Cost Explorer

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  1. AWS Billing Dashboard
  2. AWS Budgets
  3. AWS Cost and Usage report
59
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Provides you access to Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations based on your past usage and indicate potential opportunities for savings as compared to On-Demand usage?

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AWS Cost Explorer

60
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Which type of EC2 instance is the most suitable and cost-effective if the customer will be running mission-critical workloads continuously for a whole year?

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Reserved

61
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Three payment options when you purchase a Standard or Convertible Reserved Instance

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  1. All Upfront
  2. Partial Upfront
  3. No Upfront
62
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  1. Access comprehensive AWS cost and usage information
  2. Track your Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) usage
  3. Leverage strategic data integrations
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AWS Cost and Usage Report

63
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Provides you a dashboard that lets you view the status of your month-to-date AWS expenditure and provides access to a number of other cost management products that can help you dig deeper into your AWS costs and usage

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AWS Cost Management dashboard

64
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Where can the customer view his Reserved Instance usage for the past month?

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AWS Billing Console

65
Q

What is the lowest support plan that allows an unlimited number of technical support cases to be opened?

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Developer Support Plan

66
Q

Not supported under the Consolidated Billing volume discount. Because they do not have volume pricing tiers of their own in the first place

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AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon SNS

67
Q

Offers volume discounts when you enable Consolidated Billing?

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Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3

68
Q

You have an Amazon Linux EC2 instance running for an hour and thirty minutes. How will AWS bill you in terms of usage?

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You will be billed for an hour and thirty minutes according to the per-second billing rule

69
Q

A company is planning to launch an Amazon EC2 instance with an attached EBS volume in a default configuration. You will be charged only for the EBS storage in which instance state?

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Stopped

70
Q

These storage tiers have object retrieval fees

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S3 Glacier Deep Archive, S3 Standard-IA, and S3 One Zone-IA

71
Q

These storage tiers doesn’t have retrieval fees

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S3 Standard and S3 Intelligent-Tiering

72
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A company needs to store frequently accessed data in Amazon S3. How will AWS bill you for storing objects in your S3 buckets?

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Per GB

73
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A company is using Cost Explorer to gain an understanding of its cost trends in AWS. How many months of historical data can Cost Explorer store and display?

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12 Months

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