Pricing and Support Flashcards
What are three ways to use AWS Free Tier?
Always free, 12 Months free, and Trials
What can I do at the Always Free level?
Varies depending on the offer. Examples:
AWS Lambda allows 1 million free requests and up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time, per month.
Amazon DynamoDB allows 25 GB of free storage/month.
How does AWS pricing work?
Pay for what you use, pay less when you reserve, pay less with colume-based discounts when you use more.
How can I explore services and costs?
With AWS Pricing Calculator
What do I use to monitor my usage and costs, and to get a forecast of the next month based on current usage?
AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard lets you do all that and pay your bill.
AWS Organizations lets me manage multiple AWS accounts from a central location. What can it do for pricing and support?
AWS Organizations provides consolidated billing.
What’s the benefit of consolidated billing?
Greater transparency, and the ability to share bulk discount pricing by aggregating usage.
If I can consolidate and pay my bills in AWS Organizations, and if there’s an AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard, what do I do with AWS Budgets?
Plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations. You can also set alerts in case your usage exceeds your plan.
On top of AWS Organizations, AWS Billing & Cost Management, and AWS Budgets, there’s AWS Cost Explorer. Why?
Cost Explorer lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
What can I see in AWS Cost Explorer?
My top five cost-accruing AWS services, down to the hourly level.
I want free support. What tier is that?
AWS Basic Support provides the AWS Personal Health Dashboard and a limited selection of AWS Trusted Advisor checks.
I’m committed to AWS and need support. What’s the least expensive?
Developer Support gives best practice guidance, client-side diagnostic tools, and building-block architecture support
What’s the minimum support level for unlimited AWS Trusted Advisor checks?
Business Support.
I wnat a concierge support team and Technical Account Managers to guide and coordinate my AWS journey. What support level should I choose.
Enterprise On-Ramp Support is the least expensive to provide that.
I want a designated Technical Account Manager on top of less expensive benefits. What support level provides it?
Enterprise Support
What service provides third-party solutions for AWS?
AWS Marketplace
