Pricing, Billing, and Governance Flashcards
Total Cost Of Ownership is Financial Tool that helps you understand both
the direct and indirect costs of AWS.
Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO) can be used to figure out cloud migration cost and how to reduce
cloud operational cost
Ways to Reduce Your TCO Using AWS (2)
- minimize large capital expenditures
- Provision resources based on your usage
Storage(S3) Pricing is based on (2)
- Storage Class Type
- Number and size of total objects
What are the 5 Factors that affect RDS Pricing?
- Type of Database
- Data Transfer
- Running Clock Hours
- Number of API Request
- Deployment Type
The Cost and Usage Report Provides the most detailed set of
AWS cost and usage data available.
The Cost and Usage Report Aggregates usage data on what three timelines
- Hourly
- Daily
- Monthly
Cost Allocation Tags can help you
track spending.
Cost Allocation Tags allow you to label resources using a
key and value pair
Cost Allocation Tags allow you to track costs via which report?
the cost allocation report
What is an Organization in AWS?
An entity you create to
consolidate multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella
AWS Organization features (3)
- Account Governance
- Auto Account creation
- Consolidated Billing
AWS Control Tower Enforces the best use of services across accounts by helping your accounts
adhere to company-wide policies.
Systems Manager gives you visibility and control over your AWS resources. It also helps you maintain your resources through
automatic patching and updates.
Trusted Advisor provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following
AWS best practices.
Which AWS service Checks S3 bucket permissions to determine if public access is allowed?
Trusted Advisor does this for free
Trusted Advisor Enterprise Or Business Support comes with the following 3 Checks
- Checks IAM password policy
- Checks for exposed access keys
- Checks for CloudFront content delivery optimization
License Manager manages which types of licenses?
Manage on-premises or AWS-based Oracle licenses.
Certificate Manager
Provides public and private certificates for free
AWS Managed Services augments your staff and helps improve
your overall operational efficiency.
AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog of prebuilt solutions that you can
purchase or license.
AWS Marketplace you can install software with
Install software with the click of a button
AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global community of approved partners that offer
software solutions and consulting services for AWS
AWS Professional Services can help you
migrate from on-premises to the cloud.
Personal Health Dashboard alerts you to events that might
impact your AWS environment.
Personal Health Dashboard feedback and troubleshooting guidance tailored
to your specific environment
AWS Technical Support Cases can be opened by customers on the Developer, Business, or Enterprise plans but not the
Basic Support Plan
On the Basic Support Plan, you have 24/7 access via
email only
On the Developer Support Plan, you can open an unlimited # of tickets in which three categories?
Account & Billing
Service Limit Increase
Technical Support Tickets
Developer Support Plan you get 1 assigned _____ _______ ________ as Primary Contact.
Cloud Support Associate
Starting at the Business Support Plan you can open an unlimited # of Cases and Unlimited Contacts you also get access to the
full set of Trusted Advisor checks.
What are the forms of communication in this plan on the Business Support Plan?
- 24/7 access via email, phone, or chat with a Cloud Support Engineers
What is the ideal workload for the Business Support Plan?
Production workloads.
What are the response times on the Business Support Plan? (2)
Production system down?
Production system impaired?
Response Times:
Production system down < 1hour ,
Production system impaired <4 hours
What are the forms of communication in this plan on the Enterprise Support Plan?
24/7 access via email, phone, or chat with Cloud Support Engineers
- 24/7 access via email, phone, or chat with a
- Cloud Support Engineers
- Full set of Trusted Advisor checks.
- Access to all ticket types
The Enterprise Support Plan has all the features of the priors plans and Access to a ______ ______ ______
Technical Account Manager (TAM) and the Concierge Support Team.
What is the ideal workload for the Enterprise Support Plan?
Business or mission-critical production workloads.
What are the response times on the Enterprise Support Plan? (3)
Production system down
Production system impaired
Business-critical system down
Production system down < 1hour
Production system impaired <4 hours
Business-critical system down <15 Mins
AWS Cost Explorer, is a tool that enables you to _______, _________, and _________ your AWS costs and usage over time.
visualize, understand, and manage
AWS Cost Explorer visualizes and forecasts your costs and usage over time. How far into the past and future can you look?
- View past 12 months
- Forecast for up to 3 months
Which tool should you use if you are considering your options for Savings Plans?
AWS Budgets
Control Tower
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Organization
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the
cost of your use cases on AWS
In AWS Organizations, you can apply service control policies (SCPs) to the
Organization Unit
Organization Root
Or an Individual member account
You can apply IAM policies to IAM (3)
users, groups, or roles.
Trusted Advisor is an online resource that helps to reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by
optimizing your AWS environment.
Trusted Advisor scans your AWS infrastructure and compares is to AWS best practices in five categories:
Cost Optimization
Performance
Security
Fault Tolerance
Service Limits
Which AWS service lets you apply resources and apply policies across accounts
AWS Organization
What are the forms of communication and the hours of availability on the Developer Support Plan?
- Via email only
- Communication is only during Business-hours
If your system is impaired on the Developer Support Plan how long does AWS have to respond?
- <12 Hour Response if System Impaired
Trusted Advisor Free-Tier will check for unrestricted access in which two areas?
- Ports on EC2 instances
- MFA on the root account
AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure,
multi AWS Account environment called a landing zone.
What is the difference between AWS organizations and control towers?
While AWS Organizations enables you to manage your environment across multiple accounts
AWS Control Tower automates many of the steps required to
build your environment and govern at scale
