Pricing, Billing, And Governance Flashcards
The three fundamental drivers of cost
Compute, storage, and outbound data transfer
The three free offer types
12 months, always free, and trials
What are the five ways to pay for Amazon EC2 instances?
On demand, savings plan, reserved instances, spot instances, dedicated hosts
On demand pricing for EC2 instances
Pay by the hour or by the second without pre-paying
Savings plan pricing plan for EC2 instances
Commit to compute usage measured per hour for a 1 or 3 year term
Reserved Instances pricing plan for EC2 instances 
Commit to usage for 1 or 3 years; pay regardless of usage
Spot instances pricing plan for EC2 instances
Instances only launch if spare capacity is available
Dedicated host pricing plan for EC2 instances
An entire physical server dedicated just for the client
2 ways you are charged when using Lambda?
- Number of requests
- Code execution time
- Always free (1 million requests per month)
For S3 buckets, 4 ways to pay by:
- Storage class
- Storage
- Data transfer: data transferred out of the S3 region
- Request and data retrieval: requests made for data & the amount of requests made.
What are the 8 features that drive RDS pricing?
1. Running clock hours
2. Type of database
3. Storage
4. Purchase type
5. Database count
6. API requests and calls
7. Deployment type
8. Data transfer
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
A financial estimate that helps you understand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS.
Application discovery Service
Helps you plan migration projects to the AWS cloud; is used to estimate your TCO.
3 ways to reduce your TCO using AWS
- minimize Capital expenditures
- Utilize reserved instances
- Right size your instances
The AWS pricing calculator
Estimates the cost for your architecture solution.
AWS price list API
Allows you to query the price of AWS services.
Query using JSON or HTML
Receive price alerts when prices change
AWS Budgets
Budgets allows you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount.
What are the three budget types?
- cost
- usage
- Reservation
Cost and usage report
A downloadable report that contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data.
Cost explorer
Allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time.
Cost allocation tags
Tags that can help you track spending
AWS Organizations
An AWS service that allows you to manage multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella
Three benefits of AWS Organizations
- consolidate billing
- Cost savings
- Account governance
Control tower
Helps ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies
Systems manager
A service that gives you visibility and control over your AWS resources. That helps you maintain your resources through automatic patching and updates.
What are Service Control Policies (SCP) used for and for what?
Service control policies are used by the Organizations AWS service and they are used to enforce permissions that you want everyone in the organization to follow.
Trusted Advisor
Online tool that provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. 
License Manager
Helps you manage software licenses, including on-premises or AWS-based Oracle licenses. 
Certificate Manager
Helps you provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates. Provides free public and private certificates.
Managed Services
Helps you officially operate your AWS infrastructure so you can focus on building your apps. Augments your staff and helps improve your overall operational efficiency. 
Professional Services
A service that helps enterprise customers move to a cloud-based operating model. Propose, architect, and implement solutions.
What are the support plans that AWS offers? And what are the prices?
- Basic - free
- Developer -$29 per mo
- Business - $100 per mo
- Enterprise - $15,000 per mo
What does the basic support plan include?
Account & billing Support
Service limit increases
Customer service access 24/7 via email only
What does the developer support plan include?
Account and billing support
Service line increases
Technical support
Allowed 1 primary contact
Unlimited cases
Cloud support associate access business hours via email only
Faster response times
What does the business support plan include?
Account and billing support
Service limit increases
Technical support
Unlimited contacts and cases
Full set of Trusted Advisor checks
Access to cloud support engineers 24/7 via email phone or chat
Faster response times regarding production system impaired cases
What does the enterprise support plan include?
Account and billing support
Service limiting increases
Technical support
Unlimited contacts and cases
Technical account manager
Concierge support team
Full set of trusted advisor checks
24/7 access via email phone and chat
Less than 15 minute response time for a business critical system down
