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Exam 02 Pricing Flashcards

1
Q

What is the AWS philosophy on pricing? (3)

A

Start or stop using a product any time

End of month only pay for what you use

No long term contracts

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2
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What are the offerings of the free tier that expire after 12 months? (4)

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(all have limits)

EC2

S3

Amazon RDS

Cloudfront

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3
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What are the 5 basic AWS pricing policies?

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Pay as you go

Pay less when you reserve

Pay less by using more

Pay less as AWS grows

Custom pricing

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4
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Linux EC2 instances are charged by the _____ and Windows instances are currently charged by the _____

A

minute

hour

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5
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Is it possible to get custom pricing for AWS?

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Yes for huge accounts

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6
Q

What are the free services for AWS? (7)

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VPC

Elastic Beanstalk (not the provisioned resources)

CloudFormation (provisions not free)

IAM

Auto Scaling (extra instances not free)

Opsworks

Consolidated Billing

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What are the three fundamental charges for AWS?

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Compute

Storage

Data Out (In free)

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8
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What specific things determine EC2 charges? (9)

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Clock hours of server

Machine Configuration

Instance Type

Number of instances

Load Balancing

Detailed Monitoring

Auto Scaling Instances

Elastic IP Addresses

OS and Software Pkg

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9
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What is the pricing options for EC2 reserved instances? (6)

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1-year (no down payment)

1-year (partial down)

1-year (100% down)

3-year (no down payment)

3-year (partial down)

3-year(100% down)

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What determines S3 prices? (4)

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Storage class (Standard or IA)

Storage Amount

Requests (GET, PUT, COPY)

Data Transfer (in free, out costs)

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What determines RDS price? (9)

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Server clock hours

DB options (Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, License Type)

Size of instance

Number of instances

Provisioned storage

Additional Storage

Requests

Deployment Type (Multi-AZ, Read Replicas)

Data Transfer (out)

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What determines CloudFront pricing? (3)

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Traffic Distribution

Requests

Data Transfer Out

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13
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What are the available support plans, currently? (4)

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Basic

Developer

Business

Enterprise

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14
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What are the characteristics of the Basic Support Plan? (2)

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Free

Forums Only

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What are the characteristics of the Developer Support Plan? (3)

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$29/month

Business Hour by Email

1 person - unlimited cases

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What are the characteristics of the Business Support Plan? (4)

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$100/month

24x7, email, chat, phone

Unlimited contacts

Unlimited Cases

17
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What are the characteristics of the Enterprise Support Plan? (4)

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$15,000/month

24 x 7 email, chat, phone

Dedicated Acct Manager (TAM)

Unlimited Contacts, Cases

18
Q

What is the response time for Basic support plan?

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None

19
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What is the response time for Developer support plan?

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General Guidance = < 24 business hours

System Impaired = < 12 business hours

20
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What is the response time for 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

21
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What is the response time for Enterprised support plan?

A

General Guidance = < 24 hours

System Impaired = < 12 hours

Production System Impaired = < 4 hours

Production System Down = < 1 hour

Business-critical system down = < 15 minutes

22
Q

Can applied tags be inherited? (3)

A

Yes, where a service provisions other resources, E;G

Autoscaling

Cloudformation

Elastic Beanstalk

23
Q

What is AWS Organizations? (3)

A

Account Management Service

Consolidate multiple AWS accounts

Centrally Manage

24
Q

What is the rollup structure for AWS Organizations? (3)

A

Accounts roll up to Org Units

Org Units roll up to Root

Policies applied at any level

25
Q

In consolidated billing what are the characteristics of the root account? (4)

A

Known as the Paying Account

Linked accounts roll up

All charges flow through that account

Max of 20 linked accounts

26
Q

What are the advantages of using Consolidated Billing? (6)

A

One bill per AWS account

Easy to track charges

Easy cost allocation

Volume discounts for all linked accts

Spread reserved EC2 instances

Aggregation into CloudTrail

27
Q

What are the best practices for the paying account in consolidated billing? (3)

A

Enable MFA

Strong/Complex passwords

Do NOT deploy resources with this account

28
Q

When creating an AWS Organization, what are the two choices?

A

All features

Consolidated billing only

29
Q

What is the purpose of creating OUs as part of your AWS Organization?

A

Applying security policies to an individual OU

30
Q

What are Quickstarts? (4)

A

Templates in Cloudformation that easily provision infrastructures.

Best practices

Security

Scalability

All necessary components

31
Q

What does the AWS Simple Monthly Calendar do?

A

Allows you to model infrastructure options to determine monthly pricing estimate.

Does not provide Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

32
Q

What does the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator Do? (4)

A

Allows you to determine your on-prem costs vs projected AWS costs for the same thing. Broken down by

Server

Storage

Network

IT-Labor

33
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What are the AWS Key principles of pricing? (4)

A

Understand the fundamentals

Start early with cost optimization

Maximize the power of flexibility

Use the right pricing model for the job

34
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What does Amazon mean by “Start early with cost optimization”?

A

Put cost and visibility control mechanisms in place before the environment grows large and complex.

35
Q

What does Amazon mean by the pricing principle of “maximizing the power of flexibility”?

A

Paying for services as-needed and when needed allows your business to focus on innovation and invention

36
Q

What does Amazon mean by the principle of “using the right pricing model for the job?” (applies to all offerings)

A

Choosing on demand, dedicated instances, spot instances, reserved

37
Q

What is the pricing model for Lambda?

A

Number of Requests

Free - 1 million requests/month

$0.20 per million after

Duration

400,000 GB Seconds/month

Up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time

.00001667 per GB seconds after

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