Pricing Models Flashcards

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Reserved Instance Options

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  • All upfront (AURI) - high discount
  • Partial upfront (PURI)
  • No upfront (NURI) - low discount
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How do you pay for AWS?

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  • Pay-as-you-go
  • Save when you reserve
  • Pay less by using more (benefit from economy of scale)
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3
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Tiered Pricing are available for

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  • Amazon S3

* Data transfer out of EC2

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4
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Free usage tier are available for

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  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon EBS
  • Amazon ELB
  • AWS Data Transfer
    etc.
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Consolidated Billing

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If you consolidate billing across multiple accounts, AWS would consolidate the bills and you can still take tiering benefits based on usage across multiple accounts.

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In AWS clients pay primarily for (Core service categories)

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  • Compute Capacity
  • Storage
  • Outbound Data transfer (aggregated) - aggregation across : EC2, S3, RDS, Simple DB, SQS, SNS, VPC and charged at outbound data transfer rate

No Charge for : Inbound data transfers

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Amazon EC2 pricing

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  • Charge only for capacity used, clock - sec/hr of server time
    • For On demand - pay by the hour, min 60 sec
    • For Reserved - low/no upfront payment, discount on hourly charge
    • For Spot instance - Bid for unused capacity
  • Pricing could vary by: AWS region, OS, instance type, instance size
  • OS cost is included
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Amazon CloudWatch pricing

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Basic monitoring is free
Detailed monitoring (fixed rate, pro rated partial month)
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Autoscaling pricing

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Auto adjusts number of instances at no additional charge

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10
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Elastic IP address pricing

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No charge for 1 when associated with a running instance

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Amazon S3 pricing

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Storage Class :
* Standard Storage - Durability - 11 9s | Availability - 4 9s
* Standard In freq Access(S-IA) - Durability - 11 9s | Availability - 3 9s
Storage Cost - # + size of objects and Storage type
Request Cost Factor - # + type request + Amount of data transfer out

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Amazon EBS pricing

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Cost by Volume types by amount provisioned and IOPS (Input output Ops per sec):

  • Geneal Purpose (SSD) - IOPS (included)
  • Provisioned IOPS (SSD) - IOPS (Charged by amount provisioned):
  • Magnetic - IOPS (Charged by # of requests):
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13
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EBS volume snapshots pricing

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Additional cost from the EBS pricing

Cost per GB-month of data storage + Outbound data transfer charge (aggregated tiered)

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Amazon RDS pricing

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  • Resource charge on Clock hour of server time (Launch to terminate)
  • Physical capacity of DB used (engine, size, memory class)
    DB purchase type:
  • On Demand instance - hourly
  • Reversed instance - Low one time upfront (1/3 yr term) - No charge for backup storage 100% of DB storage
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15
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Amazon CloudFront pricing

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Pricing varies by geo-region (edge location) - based on request + data transfer out

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16
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Trusted Advisors provides best practices in 4 categories

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  • Cost Optimization
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Fault Tolerance