Mod 2: Cloud Economics and Billing

Question 1

(Fundamentals of Pricing)
-charged per hour/second (Linux only)
-varies by instance type

Answer 1

compute

Question 2

(Fundamentals of Pricing)
-charged typically by GB

Answer 2

storage

Question 3

(Fundamentals of Pricing)
-outbound is aggregated and charged
-inbound has no charge )with some exceptions)
-chagres typically per GB

Answer 3

data transfer

Question 4

How do you pay for AWS? (3)

Answer 4

-pay for what you use
-pay less when you reserve
-pay less when you use more and as AWS grows.

Question 5

largest discount

Answer 5

AURI (All upfront reserved instance)

Question 6

lower discount

Answer 6

PURI (Partial upfront reserved instance)

Question 7

smaller discount

Answer 7

NURI (No upfront reserved instance)

Question 8

-enables you to gain free hands-on experience with the AWS platform, products, and services. Free for 1 year for new customers

Answer 8

AWS Free Tier

Question 9

-Amazon VPC
-Elastic Beanstalk
-Auto scaling
-AWS Cloud Formation
-AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Answer 9

Service with no charge

Question 10

is the financial estimate to help identity direct and indirect costs of a system

Answer 10

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Question 11

-to compare the costs of running an entire infrastructure environment or specific workload on-premises versus on AWS.
-to budget and build the business case for moving to the cloud.

Answer 11

Why use TCO

Question 12

TCO Considerations

Answer 12

-Server costs
-Storage costs
-Network costs
-IT Labor costs

Question 13

-estimate monthly costs
-identify oppurtunities to reduce monthly costs
-model your solutions before building them.
-explore price points and calculations behind your estimate.
-find the available instance types and contract terms that meet your needs.
-name your estimate and create and name group of service.

Answer 13

AWS Pricing Calculations

Question 14

-reduced spending on compute, storage, networking, security.
-reductions in hardware and software purchases (capex)
-reductions is operational costs, backup, and disaster recovery.
-reductions in operations panel.

Answer 14

Hard benefits

Question 15

-reuse of service and applicatons that enable you to define land redefine solutions by using the same cloud secure.
-increased developer productivity
-improved customer satisfaction
-agile business processes that can quickly respond to new and emerging opppurtunities.
-increase in global reach

Answer 15

soft benefits

Question 16

-policy-based account management
-group based account management
-application programming interfaces (APIs) that automate account management.
-consolidated billing

Answer 16

Key Feature and Benefits (AWS Organizations)

Question 17

Control access with AWS identity and Access Management (IAM)

Answer 17

Security with AWS Organizations

Question 18

(Security with AWS Organizations)
-enable you to allow or deny access to AWS services for users, groups, and roles

Answer 18

IAM policies

Question 19

(Security with AWS Organizations)
-enable you to allow or deny access to AWS services for individuals or group accounts in an organizational unit (OU)

Answer 19

Service Control Policies

Question 20

Organizations Set up (4)

Answer 20

1) Create Organization
2) Create Organozational Units
3) Create Service Control Policies
4) Test restrictions

Question 21

(Limits)
-must be composed of Unicode characters
-must be exceed 250 characters in length

Answer 21

limits on names

Question 22

(max and min values)
-roots

Answer 22

1

Question 23

(max and min values)
-OUs

Answer 23

1,000

Question 24

(max and min values)
-policies

Answer 24

1,000

Question 25

(max and min values)
-max size of a service control policy document

Answer 25

5,120 bytes

Question 26

(max and min values)
-max nesting of OUs in a root

Answer 26

5 levels of OUs in a root

Question 27

(max and min values)
-invitations sent per day

Answer 27

20

Question 28

(max and min values)
-number os member accounts you can create concurrently

Answer 28

5 (can progress at the same time)

Question 29

(max and min values)
-number of entities to which you can attach a policy

Answer 29

unlimited

Question 30

Accessing AWS Organizations (4)

Answer 30

-AWS Management Console
-AWS Command Line Interface
-Software Development Kits (SDKs)
-HTTPS Query Application Programmming Interfaces (API)

Question 31

(AWS Billing and Cost Management)
Tools

Answer 31

-AWS Budgets
-AWS Cost and Usage Report
-AWS Cost Explorer

Question 32

(Technical Support)
-provides unique combination of tools and expertise.
–AWS Support
–AWS Support plans

Answer 32

AWS Support

Question 33

(Technical Support)
-support is provided for:

Answer 33

-Experimenting with AWS
-Production use of AWS
-Business-critical use of AWS

Question 34

(Technical Support)
-best practices

Answer 34

AWS Trusted Actor

Question 35

(Technical Support)
-Account assistance

Answer 35

AWS Support Concierge

Question 36

(Support Plans)
-resources center access, serice health dashboard, product FAQs, discussion forms, and support for health checks.

Answer 36

basic support

Question 37

(Support Plans)
-support for early development of AWS

Answer 37

developer support

Question 38

(Support Plans)
-customers that run productin workloads

Answer 38

business support

Question 39

(Support Plans)
-customers that run business and mission-critical worloads

Answer 39

enterprise support