Pricing, Billing & Governance Flashcards

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AWS Pricing - 3 fundamental drivers

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  1. Compute - hourly from launch to termination
  2. Storage - data you store
  3. Outbound data transfer - data in flight
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3 Free Offer Types

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  1. 12 months free - following your sign-up
  2. Always free - available to all AWS customers
  3. Trials - short-term free trial
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EC2 Pricing (5)

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  1. On-Demand - per hour or per second
  2. Savings Plan - commit to per hour usage for 1-3 year term
  3. Reserved Instances - commit to 1-3 years regardless of usage
  4. Spot Instances - only launch if spare capacity available
  5. Dedicated Hosts - entire server for you
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Lambda pricing (3)

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  1. Number of requests (inc. test invokes).
  2. Code execution time (from execution to stop).
  3. Always free (1 million requests per month).
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S3 pricing (4) - pay for the storage used

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  1. Storage class (such as glacier).
  2. Storage (number and size of objects stored).
  3. Data transfer (amount of data transferred OUT of S3 Region).
  4. Request and data retrieval.
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Application Discover Service

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Helps you plan migration projects to the AWS Cloud. Used to estimate TCO (total cost of ownership) and migrate.

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RDS pricing (8)

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  1. Running clock hours (from start to stop).
  2. Type of database.
  3. Storage.
  4. Purchase type (on demand or reserved).
  5. Database count (no. of instances).
  6. API calls.
  7. Deployment type (one AZ or multiple).
  8. Data transfer (outbound charge).
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Pricing Calculator

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Provides an estimate of AWS fees and charges; helps you get your TCO.

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AWS Price List API

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Query the price of AWS services using JSON or HTML and receive price alerts when prices change.

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Budgets

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Set custom budgets that alert you when cost or usage is exceeded. Notifications can be sent via SNS or Chatbot Alerts.

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Budget Types

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  1. Cost budgets.
  2. Usage budgets.
  3. Reservation budgets (like Savings Plans utilisation).
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Cost and Usage Report

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Comprehensive cost and usage data. Lists usage for each service category. Provides hourly, daily or monthly level breakdown.

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Cost Explorer

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Visualise and forecast costs and usage over time - view past 12 months and forecast up to 12 months.

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Cost Allocation Tags

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Track your spend:
1. Allow you to label resources using a key-value pair.
2. You can track costs via the cost allocation report.

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Organizations

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Centrally manage multiple AWS accounts.

  1. Group accounts (master payer is the root account) with Units and Member Accounts.
  2. Pay for all with a single payment (consolidated billing)
  3. Automate account creation
  4. Allocate resources and apply policies across all accounts with Service Control Policies (SCPs)
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Organizations - benefits

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  1. Consolidated billing
  2. Cost savings
  3. Account governance
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Control Tower

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Ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies. Dashboard helps you manage your accounts.

Works directly with organisations.

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Systems Manager

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Visibility and control over your AWS resources. Automate ops tasks, group resources and take actions, patch and run commands on multiple EC2 or RDS instances.

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Trusted Advisor

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Provides real-time guidance in provisioning resources following AWS best practices.

Checks your account and makes recommendations, see your service limits, understand best practice.

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Licence Manager

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Manage your software licenses for on-prem and AWS.

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Certificate Manager

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Helps provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates. Provides public and private certs for free and integrates with ELB, API Gateway and more.

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Managed Services

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Helps you effectively operate AWS infrastrucutre by augmenting your internal staff and providing mgmt of your infrastructure.

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Professional Services

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Helps enterprise customer move to a cloud-based operating model - propose, architect and implement solutions.

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AWS Partner Network (APN)

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A global community of approved partners that offer software solutions and consulting services for AWS.

Offer tech partners, consulting and approved vendors.

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Marketplace

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Digital catalog of prebuilt solutions to purchase or license. You can sell your own solutions too.

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Personal Health Dashboard

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Alerts you to events that might impact your AWS environment, with troubleshooting and tailored advice.

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Support Plans (4)

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  1. Basic - free.
  2. Developer - from $29/month; testing & development.
  3. Business - from $100/month; production workloads.
  4. Enterprise - from $15k/month; business or mission critical production workloads.
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Support Case Types (3)

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  1. Account and billing - free to raise for all customers.
  2. Service limit increases - all customers.
  3. Technical support - only on Developer, Business or Enterprise plans customers.
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Basic Support Plan

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  • Free
  • Account & Billing + - Service limit increase support only
  • Customer Service 24/7 email only
  • Access to forums
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Developer Support Plan

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  • $29/month
  • All support cases, inc. Technical Support
  • 1 primary contact
  • Unlimited support cases
  • Cloud Support Associate business hours via email
  • Response times: <24h general guidance & <12h system impaired
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Business Support Plan

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  • $100/month
  • All support cases, inc. Technical Support
  • Unlimited contacts
  • Unlimited support cases
  • Full set of Trusted Advisor checks
  • Cloud Support Engineers, 24/7, via email, phone or chat
  • Response times: <24h general guidance; <12h system impaired; <4h production system impaired; <1h production system down
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Enterprise Support Plan

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  • $15k/month
  • All support cases, inc. Technical Support
  • Unlimited contacts
  • Unlimited support cases
  • Full set of Trusted Advisor checks
  • Technical Account Manager (TAM)
  • Concierge Support Team
  • Infrastructure Event Management
  • Cloud Support Engineers 24/7 - email, phone & chat
  • Response times: <24h general guidance; <12h system impaired; <4h production system impaired; <1h production system down; <15 minutes business-critical system down