Module 8 - Pricing and Support Flashcards
AWS Free Tier
Enables you to begin using certain services without having to worry about incurring costs for the specific period.
AWS Free Tier three types of offers
Always Free
12 months free
Trials
Always Free
Offers do not expire and available to all AWS customers.
12 Months Free
Offers free for 12 months following initial sign-up date to AWS.
Trials
Short-term free trial offers start from date you activate particular service.
Length of each trial might vary by number of days or amount of usage in service.
How AWS Pricing Works
AWS offers range of cloud computing services with 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
Pay for what you use
You pay for exactly the amount of resources that you actually use.
Without requiring long-term contracts or complex licensing.
Pay less when you reserve
Some services offer reservation options that provide significant discount compared to On-Demand Instance pricing.
Pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more
Some services offer tiered pricing so per-unit cost incrementally lower with increased usage.
AWS Pricing Calculator
- Lets you explore AWS services and create estimate for cost of your use cases on AWS.
- Can organise your AWS estimates by groups that you define.
- Group can reflect how your company is organised such as providing estimates by cost centre.
- Created estimate – can save it and generate a link to share it with others.
• Can enter details:
o Kind of operating system you need.
o Memory requirements.
o Input/output (I/O) requirements.
• Can review estimated comparison of different EC2 instance types across AWS Regions.
AWS Lambda
- Charged based on number of requests for your functions and time it takes for them to run.
- Allows 1 million free requests and up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month.
- Can save on AWS Lambda by signing up for Compute Savings Plan.
- Compute Savings Plan offers lower compute costs in exchange for committing to consistent amount of usage over 1-year or 3-year term.
- Example of paying less when you reserve.
- Used AWS Lambda in multiple AWS Regions – can view itemised charges by Region on bill.
Amazon EC2
Pay for only compute time that you use while your instances are running.
Some workloads – can significantly reduce Amazon EC2 costs by using Spot Instances.
Find additional cost savings for Amazon EC2 by considering Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
Amazon S3 4 cost components
Storage
Requests and data retrievals
Data transfer
Management and replication
Storage
Pay for only storage you use.
Charged rate to store objects in your Amazon S3 buckets based on:
• Your objects’ sizes.
• Storage classes.
• How long you have stored each object during the month.
Requests and data retrievals
Pay for requests made to your Amazon S3 objects and buckets.
E.g. every time a visitor requests website that includes photo files – counts towards requests you must pay for.