Module 8: Pricing and Support Flashcards

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What is AWS Free Tier?

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Enables you to begin using certain services without having to worry about incurring costs for the specified period

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Types of AWS Free Tier Offers

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  1. Always Free
  2. 12 Months Free
  3. Trials
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What is Always Free Offer

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These offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers

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Example of Always Free Offer

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  1. AWS Lambda allows 1 million free requests and up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month
  2. Amazon DynamoDB allows 25 GB of free storage per month.
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What is 12 Months Free Offer?

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These offers are free for 12 months following your initial sign-up date to AWS

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Example of 12 Months Free Offer

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S3 is free for 12 months for up to 5 GB of standard storage

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Example of Trial Offers

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AWS Lightsail offers 1 month trial of up to 750 hours of usage

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What are Trial Offers?

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  1. 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.
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AWS Pricing Concepts

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  1. Pay for what you use
  2. Pay less when you reserve
  3. Pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more
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What is AWS Pricing Calculator?

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Lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS

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Functions of the Billing Dashboards

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  1. Compare your current month-to-date balance with the previous month, and get a forecast of the next month based on current usage
  2. View month-to-date spend by service
  3. View Free Tier usage by service
  4. Access Cost Explorer and create budgets
  5. Purchase and manage Savings Plans
  6. Publish AWS Cost and Usage Reports
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What is the Billing Dashboard?

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Dashboard to pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and analyze and control your costs

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What is Consolidated Billing?

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Billing feature of AWS Organizations enables you to receive a single bill for all AWS accounts in your organization

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Benefits of Consolidated Billing

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  1. You can easily track the combined costs of all the linked accounts in your organization
  2. Ability to share bulk discount pricing, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances across the accounts in your organization
  3. Enables you to have greater transparency into your organization’s accounts while still maintaining the convenience of receiving a single monthly bill.
  4. Usage is rolled up to organizational level
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Default Number of Organizations in Consolidated Billing

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4

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Cost of Consolidated Billing

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Free

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Benefits of AWS Budgets

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Helps you to accurately determine and create alerts for how close your usage is to your budgeted amounts or to the AWS Free Tier limits.

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What is AWS Budgets?

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Create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations

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What is AWS Cost Explorer?

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Tool that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time

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What are AWS Support Plans?

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Help you troubleshoot issues, lower costs, and efficiently use AWS services

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Types of AWS Support Plans

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  1. Basic
  2. Developer
  3. Business
  4. Enterprise On-Ramp
  5. Enterprise
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What is included in the Basic Support Plan?

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  1. Access to whitepapers, documentation, and support communities
  2. Contact AWS for billing questions and service limit increases
  3. Access to AWS Personal Health Dashboard
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What is included in the Developer Support Plan?

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  1. Basic Support Plan
  2. Best practice guidance
  3. Client-side diagnostic tools
  4. Building-block architecture support, which consists of guidance for how to use AWS offerings, features, and services together
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What is included in the Business Support Plan?

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  1. Basic Support Plan
  2. Use-case guidance to identify AWS offerings, features, and services that can best support your specific needs
  3. All AWS Trusted Advisor check
  4. Limited support for third-party software, such as common operating systems and application stack components
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What is included in Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan?

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  1. Basic Support Plan
  2. A pool of Technical Account Managers to provide proactive guidance and coordinate access to programs and AWS experts
  3. A Cost Optimization workshop (one per year)
  4. A Concierge support team for billing and account assistance
  5. Tools to monitor costs and performance through Trusted Advisor and Health API/Dashboard
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What is included in the Enterprise Support Plan?

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  1. Basic Support Plan
  2. A designated Technical Account Manager to provide proactive guidance and coordinate access to programs and AWS experts
  3. A Concierge support team for billing and account assistance
  4. Operations Reviews and tools to monitor health
  5. Training and Game Days to drive innovation
  6. Tools to monitor costs and performance through Trusted Advisor and Health API/Dashboard
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What is a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

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  1. The TAM is your primary point of contact at AWS on Enterprise Support or Enterprise On-Ramp, your TAM educates, empowers, and evolves your cloud journey across the full range of AWS services
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What is the AWS Personal Health Dashboard?

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Tool that provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may affect you

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What is the AWS Marketplace?

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Digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors where you an access detailed information on pricing options, available support, and reviews from other AWS customers

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Benefits of AWS Marketplace

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You can use AWS Marketplace to find, test, and buy software that runs on AWS

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AWS Marketplace Categories

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  1. Infrastructure Software
  2. DevOps
  3. Data Products
  4. Professional Services
  5. Business Applications
  6. Machine Learning
  7. Industries
  8. Internet of Things (IoT)
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Types of Enterprise Focused Features on AWS Marketplace

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  1. Custom terms and pricing
  2. Private marketplace
  3. Integration into you procurement systems
  4. Cost management tools
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What is a One-Click Deployment?

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Allows them to quickly procure and use products from thousands of software sellers right when you need them on AWS Marketplace