Prep for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam - Billing and Pricing

Question 1

What is the Billing and Pricing Domain?

Answer 1

• Compare and contrast various pricing models for AWS
• Recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS billing and pricing
• Identify resources available for billing support

Question 2

AWS Support plans

Answer 2

• Four Plans
• Monthly fees ranging from free, to starting at 15k a month.
• Support plan types depend on organizational needs

Question 3

What are the main charge types?

Answer 3

• Compute
• Storage
• Data Out

Question 4

Where can an admin review their AWS usage charges?

Answer 4

• Log into the AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboard to estimate and plan your AWS costs
• Receive alerts when you’re nearing usage thresholds which could mean additional costs.

Question 5

What are benefits of Pay-as-you-go model of cloud computing?

Answer 5

• No large upfront costs
• Billed only for the resources consumed
• Easily scale resources up or down to suit business needs.

Question 6

What are benefits of Pay-as-you-go model of cloud computing?

Answer 6

• No large upfront costs
• Billed only for the resources consumed
• Easily scale resources up or down to suit business needs.

Question 7

Explain fess in Compute cost method?

Answer 7

Pay hourly from the time launched, to termination

Ex: EC2 virtual servers created

Question 8

Explain fees under the Storage cost method

Answer 8

Pay per GB of storage used

Ex: S3 (Storage service) - Upload photos into an app and pay for the storage used

Question 9

Explain Outbound Data Transfer

Answer 9

Pay to transfer data out of AWS

Usually no charge for transfers into AWS or transfers between other AWS services within the same region.

Question 10

How can a multi-account org save money on billing?

Answer 10

Consolidate the account for fees

Question 11

How can a user estimate their costs?

Answer 11

• TCO Calculator
• Pay only when your business requires it
• AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate cloud architecture your trying to build
• Cost Explorer, review and analyze your forecasted usage is

Question 12

What type of tiers are available?

Answer 12

• Free Tier
• Free for 12 Months (If going over specific limitations, you will be charged as normal, even within the free 12 months)
• Trials

Question 13

What are the type of support plans?

Answer 13

• Does not include usage fees!
• Basic (Free)
  
  • No tech support, but gains access to AWS community forums
  • Seven Core Trusted Advisor Checks
  • AWS Personal Health Dashboard
• Developer (29$ a month up to 3% of AWS use cost whichever is larger)
  
  • Good for organizations experimenting with the platform with more critical needs than someone exploring under the free plan.
  • One support contact to submit requests, unlimited number of cases, email responses, 12 - 24 hours
• Business (100$ a month or 3-10% of monthly AWS usage bill)
  
  • Unlimited support contacts
  • Access AWS Support API for case automation
  • Retrieve detailed information about support operations and data types in json format.
  • Full sweet of AWS Trusted Advisor Checks
  • API access to TAC
  • Access to infrastructure event management (extra fees)
  • Third party application integration support
  • SLA is 24/7 support via phone email and chat
  • One hour response time for urgent support critical issues.
• Enterprise (Higher, 15k per month or 3 to 10% of monthly AWS usage bill)
  
  • Good for operations with mission critical use of AWS services
  • 24/7 tech support via email, chat and phone with 15 min SLA for critical support cases
  • Unlimited users, unlimited number of cases
  • TAC support, TAC API access, Third party software support
  • TAM and support concierge
  • Infrastructure event management complimentary under the ENT
  • Well Architected Reviews
  • Architecture support
  • Operations support
  • Self-paced training labs