Pricing, Billing and Support Flashcards

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How does AWS leverages Economies of Scale?

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AWS has 100K+ customers so they can offer a datacenter infra structure relatively cheap

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What does Auto-scaling do?

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It auto-scales the amount of EC2 instances depending of demand

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What does rightsizing do?

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It’s picking the right size of an EC2 instance so you can auto-scale more granuarly

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4
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What are the X different types of reserved instances?

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  • Standard reserved instances: reserve capacity of a particular instance type.
  • Convertible reserved Instance: reserve capacity while keeping flexible in choosing what instance you use
  • Scheduled reserved instances
    Reserve a particular instance time on specific timeslots
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5
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What are spot instances?

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These are instances that are only available when AWS has a lot of unused instances available.

Therefor Spot instances may start / stop on unpredictable times

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6
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How can you use Lamda’s to reduce cost?

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Lamda have no idle cost and therefor its good for SERVERLESS or EVENTDRIVEN workloads

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What does S3 storage Lens do?

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Looks at all your storage and advice you what kind of S3-tier you should use?

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8
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What kind of data transfers are there?

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  • Over the internet
  • Between Regio’s
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What is the pricing of data transfers?

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  • free - inbound over the public internet (to aws)
  • Varying price - Outbound data transfer over the internet (*10 cent per gb)
  • price per GB - inter-region
  • free / price per GB - Data transfer within a region - price depends on situation
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10
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What are 4 stages of monitoring and predicting cost?

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  • Assess Your potential cloud cost
  • Setup cost safety nets
  • Project and monitor rreal cost
  • analyze historical cost
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What does pricing calculator do?

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Pricing calculator allows you to assess your potential cloud cost.

You provide services and configuration, price calculator gives an cost estimate breakdown

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12
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What does AWS budgets do?

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Set budgets and send alerts if a threshold is met.

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13
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What does AWS Cost Explorer do?

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It’s a dashboard to see insights about real usages and projected cost. In this dashboard you can do a lot of slicing and dicing.

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14
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What do you see in Cost and Usage reports?

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Gives really detailed report about usages and costs per resource

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What does billing conductor do?

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It allows you to create billing groups within AWS organization.

It can distribute Bulk discounts, and set custom price rates,

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16
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What are the 5 different AWS support tiers?

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  • Basic - free:
  • Developer - 29,-:

*Business - 100,-

  • Enterprise on-ramp - 5500,-
  • enterprise 15.000,-
17
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What is included in the basis (free) AWS support plan?

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  • trusted advisor
  • AWS health dashboard
  • access to basic customer service and documentation - but can’t open tickets or get advice
18
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What is included in the developer (29,-) AWS support plan?

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  • Everything from basis
  • Receive general guidance within 12-24 hours
19
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What is included in the business (100,-) AWS support plan?

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everything from developer
+ all Trusted Advisor Checks
+ Get contextual guidance within 1-24 hours
+ 24/7 access to phone, web or chat support teams

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What is included in the enterprise on-ramp (5.500,-) AWS support plan?

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  • all from business
    + contextual guidance in 30 min - 24h
    + Limited consultative review and guidance
    + proactive guidance from a pool of tech account managers
    + Concierge access to billing issues
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What is included in the Enterprise (15.000,-) AWS support plan?

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  • Everything from Enterprise on-ramp
    + unlimited consultative review and guidance
    + Proactive guidance from a designated Tech account manager
    + proactive support in managing billing
22
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What is the cheapest way to get 24/7 phone and chat support and all the Trusted advisor checks?

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Business (100,-) support this

23
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What kind of support level do you need if you need billing support or guidance from a technical account manager>

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At least Enterprise ramp-up (5500), and it’s also included in Enterprise (15.000)

24
Q

What is AWS IQ?

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A market place to find AWS Certified freelancers and consultants

25
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What is AWS Managed Services?

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Pre-configured security and operations management

26
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What offers AWS professional Services?

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A team of AWS consultants that work for AWS

27
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What is AWS Activate?

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It’s offer support and exclusive offers for startups

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