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.
Data transfer
No cost to transfer data between different Amazon S3 buckets or from Amazon S3 to other services within same AWS Region.
Pay for data you transfer into and out of Amazon S3 with few exceptions:
• No cost for data transferred into Amazon S3 from internet or out to Amazon CloudFront.
• No cost for data transferred out to Amazon EC2 instance in same AWS Region as Amazon S3 bucket.
Management and replication
Pay for storage management features that you have enabled on your account’s Amazon S3 buckets.
Features include:
• Amazon S3 inventory.
• Analytics.
• Object tagging.
Billing Dashboard
• AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard to:
o Pay your AWS bill.
o Monitor usage.
o Analyse and control your costs.
Examples:
Compare current month-to-date balance with previous month and get forecast of 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.
Consolidated Billing
- Consolidated billing feature of AWS Organisations enables you to receive single bill for all AWS accounts in your organisation.
- Easily track combined costs of all linked accounts in your organisation.
- Multiple accounts combined – aggregated usage may result in benefit that applies across all accounts in organisation.
Consolidated Billing default maximum for organisation
4
Can contact AWS Support to increase quota if needed
Consolidated Billing monthly bill
can review itemised charges incurred by each account.
o Enables you to have greater transparency into your organisation’s accounts.
o Still maintaining convenience of receiving single monthly bill.
Consolidated Billing ability to share:
o Bulk discount pricing.
o Savings Plans.
o Reserved Instances across accounts in your organisation.
AWS Budgets - create budgets to plan:
o Service usage.
o Service costs.
o Instance reservations.
AWS Budgets
• Information in AWS Budgets updates three times a day.
o Helps you to accurately determine how close your usage is to your budgeted amounts or to AWS Free Tier limits.
• Set custom alerts when usage exceeds (or forecasted to exceed) budgeted amount.
AWS Cost Explorer
- Tool that enables you to visualise, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time.
- Includes default report of costs and usage for top five cost-accruing AWS services.
• Can apply custom filters and groups to analyse your data.
o E.g. view resource usage at hourly level.
AWS Marketplace
- Digital catalogue that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors.
- Use to find, test and buy software that runs on AWS.
- Explore software solutions by industry and use case.
- Review use cases that software helps you to address.
Listing in AWS Marketplace - can access detailed information on:
Pricing options
Available support
Reviews from other AWS customers
AWS Marketplace 4 product categories:
Infrastructure products
Business applications
Data products
DevOps
(Each category - can narrow your search by browsing through product listings in subcategories).
AWS Support plans help (3):
Troubleshoot issues
Lower costs
Efficiently use AWS services
AWS 4 support plans
Basic
Developer
Business
Enterprise
• Developer, Business and Enterprise Support plans include benefits of Basic Support.
o Ability to open unrestricted number of technical support cases.
Basic
Free for all AWS customers.
Includes access to whitepapers, documentation and support communities.
Can also contact AWS for billing questions and service limit increases.
Access to limited selection of AWS Trusted Advisor checks.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard.
• Tool that provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may affect you.
Developer
Features:
• Best practice guidance.
• Client-side diagnostic tools.
• Building-block architecture support – consists of guidance for how to use AWS offerings, features, services together.
Lowest cost
Business
Use-case guidance to identify AWS offerings, features, services that can best support your specific needs.
All AWS Trusted Advisor checks.
Limited support for third-party software.
• E.g. common operating systems and application stack components.
Middle cost
Enterprise
Application architecture guidance.
• Consultative relationship to support your company’s specific use cases and applications.
Infrastructure event management.
• Short-term engagement with AWS Support.
• Helps your company gain better understanding of your use cases.
• Provides your company with architectural and scaling guidance.
Technical Account Manager (TAM).
• TAM is primary point of contact at AWS.
• Provide guidance, architectural reviews, ongoing communication with your company as you plan, deploy, optimise applications.
• Provides expertise across full range of AWS services.
• Help you design solutions that efficiently use multiple services together through integrated approach.
highest cost
