Pricing

Question 1

AWS Pricing is similar to how you pay for what?

Answer 1

Utilities like water and electricity

Question 2

You can get savings by

Answer 2

commitments and using more (volume based discounts)

Question 3

5 EC2 instance pricing types and what are they

Answer 3

On demand - usage based
Savings Plan - commitment to a consistent amount of usage gets you discount
Reserved - provide a capacity reservation when used in a specific Availability Zone
Spot - request spare Amazon EC2 computing capacity for up to 90% off the On-Demand price
Dedicated Hosts - physical EC2 server dedicated for your use

Question 4

6 S3 cost components and what they are

Answer 4

Storage - based on object size
Requests and data retrievals
Data transfer - in and out of S3
Management and Analytics - priced per feature
Replication - either cross region or same region… pay storage charges in selected destination
S3 Object Lambda - add your own code to S3 GET requests

Question 5

S3 Storage types

Answer 5

Standard - General purpose
Intelligent tiering - Automatic cost savings for data with unknown or changing access patterns
Infrequent Access - For long lived but infrequently accessed data that needs millisecond access
Glacier Instant Retrieval - long-lived archive data accessed once a quarter with instant retrieval in milliseconds
Glacier Flexible Retrieval - long-term backups and archives with retrieval option from 1 minute to 12 hours
Glacier Deep Archive - long-term data archiving that is accessed once or twice in a year and can be restored within 12 hours