Pricing and Support

Question 1

What are three ways to use AWS Free Tier?

Answer 1

Always free, 12 Months free, and Trials

Question 2

What can I do at the Always Free level?

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

How does AWS pricing work?

Answer 3

Pay for what you use, pay less when you reserve, pay less with colume-based discounts when you use more.

Question 4

How can I explore services and costs?

Answer 4

With AWS Pricing Calculator

Question 5

What do I use to monitor my usage and costs, and to get a forecast of the next month based on current usage?

Answer 5

AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard lets you do all that and pay your bill.

Question 6

AWS Organizations lets me manage multiple AWS accounts from a central location. What can it do for pricing and support?

Answer 6

AWS Organizations provides consolidated billing.

Question 7

What’s the benefit of consolidated billing?

Answer 7

Greater transparency, and the ability to share bulk discount pricing by aggregating usage.

Question 8

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?

Answer 8

Plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations. You can also set alerts in case your usage exceeds your plan.

Question 9

On top of AWS Organizations, AWS Billing & Cost Management, and AWS Budgets, there’s AWS Cost Explorer. Why?

Answer 9

Cost Explorer lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

Question 10

What can I see in AWS Cost Explorer?

Answer 10

My top five cost-accruing AWS services, down to the hourly level.

Question 11

I want free support. What tier is that?

Answer 11

AWS Basic Support provides the AWS Personal Health Dashboard and a limited selection of AWS Trusted Advisor checks.

Question 12

I’m committed to AWS and need support. What’s the least expensive?

Answer 12

Developer Support gives best practice guidance, client-side diagnostic tools, and building-block architecture support

Question 13

What’s the minimum support level for unlimited AWS Trusted Advisor checks?

Answer 13

Business Support.

Question 14

I wnat a concierge support team and Technical Account Managers to guide and coordinate my AWS journey. What support level should I choose.

Answer 14

Enterprise On-Ramp Support is the least expensive to provide that.

Question 15

I want a designated Technical Account Manager on top of less expensive benefits. What support level provides it?

Answer 15

Enterprise Support

Question 16

What service provides third-party solutions for AWS?

Answer 16

AWS Marketplace