Mod 2: Cloud Economics and Billing Flashcards
(Fundamentals of Pricing)
-charged per hour/second (Linux only)
-varies by instance type
compute
(Fundamentals of Pricing)
-charged typically by GB
storage
(Fundamentals of Pricing)
-outbound is aggregated and charged
-inbound has no charge )with some exceptions)
-chagres typically per GB
data transfer
How do you pay for AWS? (3)
-pay for what you use
-pay less when you reserve
-pay less when you use more and as AWS grows.
largest discount
AURI (All upfront reserved instance)
lower discount
PURI (Partial upfront reserved instance)
smaller discount
NURI (No upfront reserved instance)
-enables you to gain free hands-on experience with the AWS platform, products, and services. Free for 1 year for new customers
AWS Free Tier
-Amazon VPC
-Elastic Beanstalk
-Auto scaling
-AWS Cloud Formation
-AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Service with no charge
is the financial estimate to help identity direct and indirect costs of a system
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
-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.
Why use TCO
TCO Considerations
-Server costs
-Storage costs
-Network costs
-IT Labor costs
-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.
AWS Pricing Calculations
-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.
Hard benefits
-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
soft benefits
-policy-based account management
-group based account management
-application programming interfaces (APIs) that automate account management.
-consolidated billing
Key Feature and Benefits (AWS Organizations)
Control access with AWS identity and Access Management (IAM)
Security with AWS Organizations
(Security with AWS Organizations)
-enable you to allow or deny access to AWS services for users, groups, and roles
IAM policies
(Security with AWS Organizations)
-enable you to allow or deny access to AWS services for individuals or group accounts in an organizational unit (OU)
Service Control Policies
Organizations Set up (4)
1) Create Organization
2) Create Organozational Units
3) Create Service Control Policies
4) Test restrictions
(Limits)
-must be composed of Unicode characters
-must be exceed 250 characters in length
limits on names
(max and min values)
-roots
1
(max and min values)
-OUs
1,000
(max and min values)
-policies
1,000
(max and min values)
-max size of a service control policy document
5,120 bytes
(max and min values)
-max nesting of OUs in a root
5 levels of OUs in a root
(max and min values)
-invitations sent per day
20
(max and min values)
-number os member accounts you can create concurrently
5 (can progress at the same time)
(max and min values)
-number of entities to which you can attach a policy
unlimited
Accessing AWS Organizations (4)
-AWS Management Console
-AWS Command Line Interface
-Software Development Kits (SDKs)
-HTTPS Query Application Programmming Interfaces (API)
(AWS Billing and Cost Management)
Tools
-AWS Budgets
-AWS Cost and Usage Report
-AWS Cost Explorer
(Technical Support)
-provides unique combination of tools and expertise.
–AWS Support
–AWS Support plans
AWS Support
(Technical Support)
-support is provided for:
-Experimenting with AWS
-Production use of AWS
-Business-critical use of AWS
(Technical Support)
-best practices
AWS Trusted Actor
(Technical Support)
-Account assistance
AWS Support Concierge
(Support Plans)
-resources center access, serice health dashboard, product FAQs, discussion forms, and support for health checks.
basic support
(Support Plans)
-support for early development of AWS
developer support
(Support Plans)
-customers that run productin workloads
business support
(Support Plans)
-customers that run business and mission-critical worloads
enterprise support
