Module 8: Pricing and Support Flashcards
How long can you use a free-tier account and deploy to AWS for?
12 months
What are 3 core pricing concepts of the AWS infrastrucutre?
Pay as you go
Pay less when you reserve - reserve capacity in services such as EC”
Pay less with volume-based discounts - Savings as your usage increases
How does AWS Lambda pricing work?
Only pay for the compute time used
Only pay for the number of requests
Save money by saving up for a compute savings plan
How does EC2 pricing work? (hint: similar to Lambda)
Only pay for the time that your EC2s are running
Reduce cost by using spot instances for specific use cases
Save by signing up to a compute savings plan
What 4 factors is S3 pricing based on?
Storage
Requests and retrievals
Data transfer
Management and replication
What is consolidated billing?
Receive one bill for all the accounts and services being used across your business. Benefit from savings as the service usages are lumped together.
What are two tools that you can use to manage your costs?
AWS Budgets: Set caps and thresholds for certain services
AWS Cost Explorer: Visualize, understand and manage your AWS costs over time. See the break down of costs by service in a time period.
What does every customer get as part of their basic support plan?
Technical papers and documentation
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
7 core AWS Trusted Advisor checks
What are the 3 levels of support plans beyond basic?
Developer
Business
Enterprise
What are features of developer support?
Best practice guidance
Client-side diagnostic tools
Building-block architecture support
What are features of business support?
Use case guidance
All AWS Trusted Advisor checks
Limited support for 3rd party software
What are features of enterprise support?
Application architecture guidance
Infrastructure event management
Technical Account Manager (TEM) - dedicated AWS employee who acts as POC
What can you find on AWS Marketplace?
A catalogue of third party software that runs on AWS
