Pricing & Support Flashcards
What is AWS Free Tier?
Start using certain services without worrying about incurring costs for the specified period:
Always free (within a certain limit)
12 months free
Trials (one-month trials)
What are the AWS Pricing Concepts?
Pay for what you use
Pay less when you reserve (e.g. EC2 savings plans)
Pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more (e.g pay less per GB the more you use)
What does the AWS Price Calculator do?
Allows you to create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS
What is the billing Dashboard?
Pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and analyse and control your costs
Access cost explorer, create budgets and publish AWS cost and usage reports
What is Consolidated Billing?
Enables you to receive a single bill for all AWS accounts in your AWS organisation:
Track combined costs all linked accounts in your org
Free and easy to use
Transparency of cross org accounts with convenience of receiving one bill
Ability to share bulk discount pricing & savings plan across the accounts in the org
Default max accounts for an org is 4 but can be increased by contacting AWS support
What is AWS Budgets?
Create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations
Set custom alerts when your usage is close to exceeding budgeted amount
What is AWS Cost explorer?
Enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time
Shows what you’re spending most on and provides 12 months of historical data
Allows you to apply custom filters and reports
What support plans does AWS provide?
Basic – Free for all, 24/7 customer service, documentation, and support forum
Developer – Email customer service directly, pay monthly, best practice guidance, client-side diagnostic tools
Business – Guidance on specific offerings for your use case, all AWS trusted advisor checks, direct phone access with 1-4hr SLA
Enterprise – 15min SLA, dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM)
TAM is a personal advisor that proactively monitors and helps design best solutions
What is AWS Marketplace?
Digital catalogue containing list of 3rd party software that runs on AWS
Has pricing info, available support, and reviews from other AWS customers
