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M2: Cloud economics and billing Flashcards

Module 2

1
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Three fundamental drivers of cost with AWS

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Compute
Storage
Outbound data transfer

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Utility style pricing model

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Pay for what you use
Pay less when you reserve
Pay less when you use more
Pay less as AWS grows

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Pay less when you reserve

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Reserved instances are available in three options:

  • all upfront reserved instance
  • partial upfront reserved instance
  • no upfront payments reserved instance
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Services with no charge

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VPC
IAM
Consolidated billing
Elastic Beanstalk
CloudFormation
Automatic scaling
OpsWorks
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5
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No charge for data when…

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Inbound data or data transfer between services within the same AWS region.

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6
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Total cost of ownership

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Tool for comparing costs of running an entire infrastructure environment for a specific workload in an on premises or collocation facility to the same workload running on a cloud based infrastructure

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TCO considerations

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Server costs for hardware and software, and facilities costs to house equipment
Storage costs for hardware, admin and facilities
Network costs for hardware, admin and facilities
IT labour costs required to administer the entire solution

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Server costs

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Hardware
Software
Facilities

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Storage costs

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Hardware
Storage
Facilities

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Network costs

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Network hardware
Network admin costs
Facilities cost

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IT labour costs

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Server admin costs

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12
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AWS simple monthly calculator

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Tool that helps:

  • Estimate monthly services costs when you use AWS
  • Identify opportunities for cost reduction
  • Use templates to model solutions to compare services and deployment models
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13
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Soft benefits of the cloud

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Reusing services and applications
Increased developer productivity
Improved customer satisfaction
Agile business processes
Increased global reach
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Benefits of AWS Organizations

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Centrally managed access policies across multiple AWS accounts
Controlled access to AWS services
Automated AWS account creation and management
Consolidated billing across multiple AWS accounts

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AWS Organizations terminology

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Organization root
Organizational unit: container for accounts within root
An OU can contain other OUs

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Security with AWS Organizations

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Use service control policies to allow or deny access to particular AWS services for individual accounts or groups of accounts in OU

17
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Organizations setup

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  1. Create organisation with your current AWS account as the master
  2. Create 2 OUs
  3. Create service control policies
  4. Test policies
18
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AWS Billing and cost management

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Service used to pay AWS bill, monitor usage and budget costs

19
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AWS Billing dashboard

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Spend summary
AWS Bills
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Budgets
AWS Cost and usage report
20
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AWS Bills

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Lists costs over last month for each service, with further breakdown by region and linked account

21
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Cost explorer

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View charts of your costs
Cost data for past 13 months
Forecast how much likely spend over next 3 months
Discover patterns in spend
Identify most used services
View metrics
22
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Cost and usage report

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Single location for accessing comprehensive information about your AWS costs and usage
Can publish to S3 bucket

23
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AWS support plans

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Basic
Developer
Business
Enterprise

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Basic support plan

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24/7 access to customer service
6 core trusted advisor checks
Personal health dashboard

25
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Developer support plan

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Access to guidance and technical support associates
Good for exploring how to quickly put AWS to work
For non production workloads or applications

26
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Business support plan

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Run one or more applications in production environment
Have multiple services activated, or use key services extensively
Depend on their business solutions to be available, scalable and secure
Full set of trusted advisor checks
24/7 access to cloud support engineers
Architectural guidance contextual to your user case

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Enterprise support plan

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Focus on proactive management to increase efficiency and availability
Build and operate workloads that follow AWS best practices
Full set of trusted advisor checks
Use AWS expertise to support launches and migrations
Use a technical account manager
24/7 access to cloud support engineers

28
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Five severity levels

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Critical
Urgent
High
Normal
Low

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