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Pricing and Billing Areas Flashcards

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What are the 4 main billing and pricing services?

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Procing, Billing, Management and Governance and Support Plans

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What is the main Pricing service?

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Application Discovery Service

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What is the Application Discovery Service?

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The Application Discovery Service helps you plan migration projects to the AWS Cloud.

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What are the 4 Billing services?

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AWS Budgets, Cost and Usage Reports, Cost Explorer, Cost Allocation Tags

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What is AWS Budgets?

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Budgets allows you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount.

Improve planning and cost control
Cost, usage, and reservation budgets
Budget alerts

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What is a Cost and Usage Report?

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The Cost and Usage Report contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data.

Aggregate usage data on a daily, hourly, or monthly level

The Cost and Usage Report gives you the ability to do a deep dive into your AWS cost and usage data. Once set up, you can download the report using the Amazon S3 console.

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What is Cost Explorer?

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Cost Explorer allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time.

Visualize costs over time
View past 12 months
Forecast for up to 3 months

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What are Cost Allocation Tags?

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Tagging on resources that allow you to search

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What are the Management and Governance Services?

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Organizations
Control Tower
Systems Manager
Trusted Advisor
Marketplace
AWS Partner Network (APN)
Managed Services
Professional Services
AWS License Manager
AWS Certificate Manager

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What is AWS Organizations?

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Organizations allows you to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella.

Don’t forget Organizations saves you money through consolidated billing. Also, remember the importance of SCPs.

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What is Control Tower?

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Control Tower helps you ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies.

Don’t forget Control Tower helps you enforce best use of services across your organization.
Control Tower helps you ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies.

Helps set up new accounts using a multi-account strategy
Works directly with AWS Organizations
Enforces the best use of services across accounts
Provides a dashboard to manage accounts

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What is Systems Manager?

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Systems Manager gives you visibility into and control over your AWS resources.

Automation, Maintenance Windows, Patch Manager

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What is Trusted Advisor?

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Trusted Advisor provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.

Helps you understand best practices

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What is AWS Marketplace?

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Marketplace is a digital catalog of prebuilt solutions you can purchase or license.
You may also use it to sell solutions to others.
Buy third-party software
Sell solutions to AWS customers
Search the catalog of software listings and install with the click of a button

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What is AWS Partner Network (APN)?

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APN is a global community of approved partners that offer software solutions and consulting services for AWS.

Offers technology partners that provide software solutions
Provides consulting partners that offer professional services
Find approved vendors with deep AWS expertise

If your team lacks the technical expertise to build and deploy cloud applications, the APN could help you get up and running quickly.

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What is AWS Managed Services?

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Managed Services helps you efficiently operate your AWS infrastructure.

Augments your internal staf
Provides ongoing management of your infrastructure
Reduces operational risks and overhead

Helps improve your overall operational efficiency.

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Who are are AWS Professional Services?

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Professional Services helps enterprise customers migrate to a cloud-based operating model and Implements solutions.

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What is AWS License Manager?

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License Manager helps you manage software licenses.

Mange on-premises and AWS licenses
Track licenses for Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and more

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What is AWS Certificate Manager?

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Certificate Manager helps you provision and manage free public/private certificates, SSL/TLS certificates.

Integrates with Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateway, and more

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What are the 5 support plans?

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Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise-on-ramp, Enterprise

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What is the Basic support plan cost?

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Basic Support is included for free for all AWS accounts.

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What does the developer support plan cost and what is it recommended for?

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Developer Support starts at $29 a month and is recommended for testing and development.

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What does the business support plan cost and what is it recommended for?

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Business Support starts at $100 a month and is recommended for production workloads.

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What is Enterprise on-Ramp?

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Slightly scaled down version off the full Enterprise support plan. You get support for Business-critical system down: < 30 minutes as oppsosed to <15 mins

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What is the Enterprise support plan and how much does it cost?

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Enterprise Support starts at $15,000 a month and is recommended for business or mission-critical production workloads.

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26
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What are the 3 fundamental drivers of cost in the AWS cloud with a description of how they’re priced?

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Compute
Hourly from launch to termination
Storage
The data you store in the cloud
Outbound data transfer
Data in flight moving between systems

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What are the 3 FREE offer types?

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12 Months Free
Always Free
Trials

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What is the 12 months free offer?

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12 Months free - 12 months’ free usage following your initial sign-up date to AWS

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What is the Always Free offer?

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Always free - Offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers

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What are AWS trials?

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Trials - Short-term free trials starting from the date you activate a particular service

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What is on-demand ec2 pricing?

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You pay by the hour or by the second without pre-paying?

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What is the savings plan ec2 pricing model?

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Commit to compute usage measured per hour for a 1- or 3-year term

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33
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What are the 5 ways to pay for Amazon EC2 instances?

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On-Demand
Savings Plan
Reserved Instances
Spot Instances
Dedicated Hosts

34
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What is the Reserved Instances ec2 pricing plan?

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Commit to use for 1 or 3 years; pay regardless of usage

35
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What is the pricing plan for ec2 spot instances?

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Instances only launch if spare capacity is available

36
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What is the pricing plan for Dedicated Hosts?

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An entire physical server just for you

37
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How is AWS Lambda priced?

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Number of requests
Includes test invokes from the console
Code execution time
From execution start, in response to events, to stop
Always free
1 million requests per month

38
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What features drive RDS pricing?

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Running clock hours
Type of database
Storage
Purchase type
Database count
API requests
Deployment type
Data transfer

39
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How is S3 priced?

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You pay for the storage you use.

40
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How does S3 pricing vary?

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Storage class
Various storage classes
Storage
Number and size of objects
Data transfer
Data transferred out of S3 Region
Request and data retrieval
Requests made for data and amount of requests

41
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What is TCO

A

Total Cost of Ownership

42
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What is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?

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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate that helps you understand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS.

43
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What is the Application Discovery Service?

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Application Discovery Service helps you plan migration projects to the AWS Cloud.

Plan migration project
Used to estimate TCO
Works with other services to migrate servers

44
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What are a Few Ways to Reduce Your TCO Using AWS? 3

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Minimize capital expenditures
AWS helps you minimize large capital expenditures, which reduces your TCO.
Utilize Reserved Instances
AWS provides Reserved Instances to help you lock in savings and reduce your TCO.
Right size your resources
AWS helps you match the provisioning of resources to your usage needs to reduce your TCO.

45
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What is the Pricing Calculator?

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The Pricing Calculator:
Helps you calculate the TCO.
Provides an estimate of AWS fees and charges.
Explore services based on your use case.
Find instance types that fit your needs.

46
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What is the AWS Price List API?

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The Price List API allows you to query the price of AWS services.
Query using JSON or HTML
Receive price alerts when prices change

47
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What are cost budgets?

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Plan how much you want to spend on a service.

48
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What are Usage Budgets?

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Plan how much you want to use on one or more services.

49
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What are Reservation Budgets

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Set Reserved Instances (RIs) or Savings Plans utilization or coverage targets.

50
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What service can alert you wgeb your usage exceeds a defined threshold?

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AWS Budgets

51
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What provides the most detailed set of AWS cost and usage data available?

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Cost and Usage Report

52
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What service helps you visualize and forecast spending?

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Cost Explorer

53
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What can help you track spend on your resources?

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Cost Allocation Tags

54
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What are SCPs?

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Service control policies (SCPs)

55
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What are SCPs part of?

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AWS Organizations

56
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Whar are the features of SCPs?

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Service control policies (SCPs) are a type of organization policy that you can use to manage permissions in your organization. SCPs offer central control over the maximum available permissions for all accounts in your organization. SCPs help you to ensure your accounts stay within your organization’s access control guidelines.

SCPs don’t affect users or roles in the management account. They affect only the member accounts in your organization.

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What is the Personal Health Dashboard?

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Personal Health Dashboard alerts you to events that might impact your AWS environment.

Provides troubleshooting guidance
Feedback tailored to your specific environment

58
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What are the 3 types of support case you can open with AWS support?

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Account and Billing
Service Limit Increases
Technical Support

59
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What type of customer can open account-related and billing cases?

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All customers

60
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What type of customer and request or limit service quote increases?

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All customers

61
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What type of customer cam open technical support cases?

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Developer
Business
Enterprise

62
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What types of customer can raise account and billing requests?

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All customers

63
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What types of customer can raise service limit increases?

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All customers

64
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What types of customer can use technical support?

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Developer
Business
Enterprise

65
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What is the number of support contacts that are available with each plan?

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Developer - 1 Primary contact
Business - Unlimited contacts
Enterprise - Unlimited Contacts

66
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In what type of plan can you raise unlimited cases?

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Developer
Business
Enterprise

67
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What type of plans have a full set of TRUSTED ADVISOR CHECKS?

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Business
Enterprise

68
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What are the response times in each support plan?

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Basic - No support
Developer - <24 system guidance, <12 System Impaired (EMAIL ONLY)
Business - <24 General guidance, <12 System Impaired, <4 Prod system impaired, <1 Prod system DOWN
Enterprise - <24 general guidance, < 12 system impaired, <4 prod system impaired, <1 prod system down, <15 business-critical system down

69
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What plans get a TAM?

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Enterprise

70
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What plans get a concierge support team?

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Enterprise

71
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What plans get Infrastructure Event Management

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Enterprise

72
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What are the email cotatact differences between support plans?

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Basic
Customer services - 24/7 access via email only
Developer
Cloud Support Associate - Business-hours access via email only
Business
Cloud Support Engineers 24/7 access via email, phone or chat
Enterprise
Cloud Support Engineers 24/7 access via email, phone, or chat

73
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A company would like someone to help them coordinate access to AWS subject matter experts when they need help. Which support plan do they need to have?

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Enterprise Support provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM) who helps coordinate access to subject matter experts among other things.

74
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You have upgraded your AWS Support plan to the Business Support level. What is true of the Business Support plan?

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< 1 hour response time support when your production system goes down.
The Business level support plan provides 1 hour or less response time support for production-level failures.

75
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A company wants to ensure all AWS accounts in their environment conform to company-wide policies. Which services can help? Select 2

A

Control Tower
Organizations

76
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Which AWS tool is specifically designed to help a company estimate their potential cloud bill for migrating workloads and calculate the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) based on their proposed workloads?

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The company can use the AWS Pricing Calculator.
The Pricing Calculator provides an estimate of AWS fees and charges. Since the company knows the workload details, the AWS Pricing Calculator can also help with calculating the total cost of ownership.

77
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How can a customer with the Enterprise Support plan get help with billing and account questions? select 2

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Contact the Support Concierge team.
The Concierge agent is the primary point of contact for billing or account inquiries.

Use the AWS Support API to programmatically open a case with AWS Support.

78
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You need to visualize, understand, and identify trends for future charges, as well as manage your AWS costs and usage over time. Which AWS tool would you use?

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AWS Cost Explorer

79
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How can a customer on the Developer Support plan open a system impaired support case?

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Open a technical support case via email.

Customers on the Developer Support plan can submit support cases for account and billing questions, service limit increases, and technical support cases via EMAIL ONLY.

80
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A company is considering migrating its applications to AWS. Which costs should the company consider when comparing its on-premises total cost of ownership (TCO) to the TCO when running on AWS?

A

Answer was :
Software license costs
Hardware and infrastructure
Data center cooling, power, and space requirements

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