Module 8: Pricing and Support Flashcards
What is AWS Free Tier?
Enables you to begin using certain services without having to worry about incurring costs for the specified period
Types of AWS Free Tier Offers
- Always Free
- 12 Months Free
- Trials
What is Always Free Offer
These offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers
Example of Always Free Offer
- AWS Lambda allows 1 million free requests and up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month
- Amazon DynamoDB allows 25 GB of free storage per month.
What is 12 Months Free Offer?
These offers are free for 12 months following your initial sign-up date to AWS
Example of 12 Months Free Offer
S3 is free for 12 months for up to 5 GB of standard storage
Example of Trial Offers
AWS Lightsail offers 1 month trial of up to 750 hours of usage
What are Trial Offers?
- Short-term free trial offers start from the date you activate a particular service
2.. The length of each trial might vary by number of days or the amount of usage in the service.
AWS Pricing Concepts
- Pay for what you use
- Pay less when you reserve
- Pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more
What is AWS Pricing Calculator?
Lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS
Functions of the Billing Dashboards
- Compare your current month-to-date balance with the previous month, and get a forecast of the next month based on current usage
- View month-to-date spend by service
- View Free Tier usage by service
- Access Cost Explorer and create budgets
- Purchase and manage Savings Plans
- Publish AWS Cost and Usage Reports
What is the Billing Dashboard?
Dashboard to pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and analyze and control your costs
What is Consolidated Billing?
Billing feature of AWS Organizations enables you to receive a single bill for all AWS accounts in your organization
Benefits of Consolidated Billing
- You can easily track the combined costs of all the linked accounts in your organization
- Ability to share bulk discount pricing, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances across the accounts in your organization
- Enables you to have greater transparency into your organization’s accounts while still maintaining the convenience of receiving a single monthly bill.
- Usage is rolled up to organizational level
Default Number of Organizations in Consolidated Billing
4