Pricing and Support Flashcards
What does AWS Free Tier consist of?
- always free
- free for 12 months from initial sign up
- short free trials from the servie activation date
Examples of services that are always free.
- Lambda - under 1M requests and 3.2M sec
- DynamoDB - up to 25GB/month
- SNS
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon Cognito
- Amazon Comprehend Medical
Examples of services free for 12 months
S3 - free for 12 months up to 5GB
Examples of services with free trials.
AWS Lightsail - 1 month trial of up to 750 hours.
AWS pricing concepts
- pay for what you use
- pay less if you reserve
- pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more
What is an AWS Pricing Calculator?
It allows for creating cost estimate for your use case.
Allows for comparing cost estimates across regions.
Price components of the S3.
- storage (what you use)
- request and data retrievals
- data transfer (no cost in the same region, for data from the Internet or CloudFront)
- management and replication
What can you do in the AWS Billing Dashboard?
- pay an AWS bill
- monitor usage
- analyze and control costs
- see month to date usage
- see free tier usage
- purchase and manage a savings plan
What is Consolidated Billing?
A feature of AWS Organizations - billing consolidated for all accounts in the organization.
Why is consolidated billing beneficial?
- use of bulk pricing discounts
- sharing reserved instances across accounts
- bill can be viewed in an itemized fashion
What is the numer of accounts allowed in consolidated billing?
default is 4, but the quota can be changed
What can be done with AWS Budgets?
- set custom budgets for e.g. costs or usage
- get alerts when budget is exceeded or is forecasted to exceed
How often info in AWS Budgets is updated?
3 times a day
What can you do with AWS Cost Explorer?
- various costs are visually presented
- costs can be grouped by various facets - service, region, tag, linked account
- you can create custom reports, e.g. daily for last month grouped by service
What are AWS support plans?
- Basic
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise On-Ramp
- Enterprise
How are support plans billed?
Each month, no upfront agreement.
Features of the AWS Basic support plan.
- free
- 24/7 customer service
- access to documentation and whitepapers
- access to support forums
- limited features of AWS Trusted Advisor
Features of the AWS Developer suport plan.
- all features of basic
- building block architecture support
- best practice guide
- guidance on how to use offerings
- email customer suport directly, 24h response time, 12h when systems are impaired
- client-side diagnostic tools
Features of the AWS Business support plan.
- all features of developer
- limited support for third-party software (e.g. OS)
- Trusted Advisor - all checks
- phone access to the support team, 4 hour response time if prod is impaired, 1 h if prod down
- access to infrastructure event management
- use-case guidance
Features of AWS Enteprise support plan.
- all features of business
- 15 minute SLA for business critical workloads
- Technical Account Manager (consierge support team)
What is AWS Marketplace
curated digital catalog to find, deploy, manage third party software
Features of AWS Marketplace
- range of payment options
- one-click deployment
- annual licenses from on-prem can be transferred to AWS
- free trials, quickstart plans
