Pricing, Billing, and Governance Flashcards
3 Drivers of cost
Compute, Storage, Outbound data transfer
Free offer types
12 months free, always free, and trials
Factors for RDS pricing
Type of DB, level of storage, running time, API requests, data transfers
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
A financial estimate that helps you understand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS
AWS Application Discovery Service
Plan migration projects to AWS Cloud. Can be used to estimate TCO.
Way to reduce TCO
Minimize capital expenditures, utilize reserved instances, use the right size for your resources
AWS Pricing Calculator
Explore services based on your use case and find instance types that fit your needs. Helps calculate TCO.
AWS Budgets
Set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceeds your budget amount. Can set cost, usage, and reservation budgets
AWS Cost and Usage Report
contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data. Downloadable report with list functions.
AWS Cost Explorer
Visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time. View the past 12 months, and forecast up to 3 months in advance
AWS Organizations
Centrally manage multiple AWS accounts. Group together accounts and make one payment. Allocate resources and apply policies across accounts. Can receive bulk discounts.
AWS Control Tower
Ensure your accounts conform to company policies. Works with Organizations to enforce best use of services across accounts, and provides a dashboard to manage all the accounts.
AWS Systems Manager
Automate operational tasks on your resources, group resources and take actions, patch and run commands on multiple EC2 instances or RDS instances
AWS Trusted Advisor
provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. Provides checks on your resources and makes recommendations, and lets you see service limits. Some checks are paid additions.
AWS Managed Services
Efficiently operate your AWS infrastructure. Provides ongoing management of your infrastructure, reducing operational risks and overhead. Can develop application specific health monitoring using CloudWatch.
