Module 8 - Pricing and Support Flashcards
Elaborate on AWS Free Tier and its different versions.
Enables you to begin using certain services without having to worry about incurring costs for the specified period. Three types of offers:
1. Always Free (doesn’t expire)
- AWS Lambda allows 1 mln free requests and up to 3.21 mln seconds of compute each month
- Amazon DynamoDB allows 25 GB of free storage per month
2. 12 Months Free
- Amazon S3 Standard Storage
- Thresholds for monthly hours of Amazon EC2 compute time
- Amounts of Amazon CloudFront data transfer out
3. Trials (short-term free trial)
- Amazon Inspector offers 90-day free trial
- Amazon Lightsail offers 750 free hours of usage over a 30-day period
Explain how AWS Pricing works.
Pay-as-you-go pricing
- Pay for what you use
- Pay less when you reserve
- Pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more
How does the AWS Pricing Calculator work?
Lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS (allows you to organise AWS estimates by groups you define - e.g., specify by cost center)
What is AWS Budgets?
A budget - updates three times daily
Explain AWS Cost Explorer.
A tool that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time - includes a default report of the cost and usage for your top five cost-accruing AWS services
What are the main features of AWS Support?
AWS offers four different support plans to help you troubleshoot issues, lower costs, and efficiently use AWS services:
1. Basic - free for all AWS customers
- 24/7 customer service
- Documentation
- Whitepapers
- Support forums
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard
2. Developer
- Basic support
- Email access to customer support
3. Business
- Basic and Developer support
- AWS Trusted Advisor provides full set of best practice checks
4. Enterprise
- Basic, Developer, and Business Support
- 15-minute SLA for business critical workloads
- TAM - Technical Account Manager
Explain AWS Marketplace.
A digital catalogue that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors
