Pricing & Billing Flashcards
AWS cost explorer
Create user defined custom forecasts for future usage patterns
Visualize, understand and manage your AWS costs, gives recommendations identify optimal EC2 Instances types for their workloads
AWS bills
Historical costs that would have been incurred over the past month with granular options. Will not provide usage based forecasts
AWS Reports
Composite video of costs and usage. Granular perspective of usage and billing but without usage based forecasts
Charging for EC2
5 types
Seconds or hours
For Linux / Ubuntu - minimum 60 seconds, charg3d by consumption
For Windows / iOS - hourly blocks
On demand: seconds or hours, short term, unpredictable workloads
Reserved instances: long term commitment (1 or 3 years) at discounted price, apps with steady state consumption
Dedicated instances: physical servers belong to you, apps with critical workloads or compliance regulations
Spot instance: up to 90% discount, application with flexible start/end times, urgent computing for large amounts of data (Big data analytics)
Savings plan: ostumers with multiple accounts and regions, EC2/fargate/lambda, 1 & 3 years tenure, commitment fee upfront
Storage pricing
Per GB of services
Tiering based on storage size
Data transfer pricing
By GB
Outbound: when downloaded, aggregate and charge
Inbound: no charge with some exceptions
AWS budgets
Set custom budgeted to track your costs and usage for all use cases
Can be alerted via email or SNS notification when actual or forecasted cost and usage exceed your budget or when savings plan utilisation drops
AWS compute optimiser
Recommends optimal resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine Learning to analyse historical utilisation metrics.
Cloud optimiser
Identify optimal rdata source configs for EC2, EBS, and lambda
NOT EFS OR S3
