Pricing, Billing and Governance Flashcards
A company is migrating its workloads to AWS. Which tool will help the company estimate their potential cloud bill and calculate their overall total cost of ownership (TCO) based on their current workloads?
The Pricing Calculator provides an estimate of AWS fees and charges.
Since the company knows the workload details, the AWS Pricing Calculator can also help with calculating the total cost of ownership.
A company would like someone to help them coordinate access to AWS subject matter experts when they need help. Which support plan do they need to have?
Enterprise Support provides access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM) who helps coordinate access to subject matter experts among other things.
A company wants to ensure all AWS accounts in their environment conform to company-wide policies. Which services can help?
Organisations allows you to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts under 1 umbrella. You can allocate resources and apply policies across accounts.
Control TowerControl Tower helps you ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies. Control Tower actually sits on top of Organizations.
What are the 6 pillars of the well architected framework?
The 6 pillars of the well architected framework are:
- operational excellence
- security
- reliability
- performance efficiency
- cost optimisation
- sustainability
What is the operational excellence pillar?
Operational Excellence focuses on creating applications that effectively support production workloads
- plan for failure
- deploy smaller reversible changes
- script operations as code
- learn from failure and refine
What is the security pillar?
The security pillar focuses on putting mechanisms in place that help protect your systems and data.
- automate security tasks
- encrypt data at rest
- assign least privileges required
- audit logs
What is the reliability pillar?
The reliability pillar focuses on designing systems that work consistently and recover quickly.
- recover from failure automatically
- scale horizontally for resilience
- test recovery procedures
What is the performance efficiency pillar?
The performance efficiency pillar focuses on the effective use of computing resources to meet system and business requirements while removing bottlenecks.
- use serverless architectures first
- use multi-region deployments
What is the cost optimisation pillar?
The cost optimisation pillar focuses on delivering optimum and resilient solutions at the least cost to the user.
- utilise consumption
- based pricing
- implement cloud financial management
- measure overall efficiency
What is the sustainability pillar?
The sustainability pillar focuses on environmental impacts especially energy consumption and efficiency.
- understand your impact
- establish sustainability goals
- maximise utilisation
- use managed services
What is the AWS Price List API?
The AWS Price List API allows you to query the price of AWS Services
What can you use to calculate the TCO?
The Pricing Calculator can be used to calculate the TCO
What are the 4 support plan levels?
The 4 support plan levels are:
- basic
- developer
- business
- enterprise
What is Budgets?
Budgets allows you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount.
What are the 3 types of Budget?
The 3 budget types are:
- cost budgets
- usage budgets
- reservation budgets
