Pricing & Support Flashcards
What is AWS Free Tier
Lets you start using certain services without having to pay for specified period.
What are 3 AWS Free Tier Types?
- Always Free
- 12 Months Free
- Trials
What is the Always Free Tier?
Offers don’t expire & available to all AWS customers.
What services are in Always Free Tier?
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon DynamoDB
What is the 12 Months Free Tier?
Free for 12 months after initial AWS sign-up date.
What services are in 12 Months Free Tier?
- S3 Standard Storage - specific amounts of space.
- EC2 compute time (threshold for monthly hours)
- CloudFront (data transfer out amounts).
What is the Trial Free Tier?
Short-term free trial from when you activate a particular service where length of time varies by number of days or service usage.
What services are in the Trial Free Tier?
- Amazon Inspector has 90-day free Trial
- Amazon Lightsail has 750 free usage hours over 30-day period.
What are the AWS Pricing Categories?
- Pay for what you use
- Pay less when you reserve
- Pay less w/ volume based discounts when you use more
What does “Pay for What You Use?” mean?
You pay for amount of resources you use w/out long-term contracts or complex licensing.
What does “Pay less w/ volume based discounts when you use more?”
Service can offer tiered price so per-unit cost is lower w/ more usage.
What is AWS Pricing Calculator?
Lets you explore AWS service & create cost estimate of use cases on AWS & can organize estimates in groups.
Once created you can share it as a link w/ others.
What is the Compute Savings Plan?
Offers lower compute costs in exchange for committing to consistent usage amount over 1 - 3 year term (paying less when you reserve)
What is AWS Lambda Pricing?
Pay for number of requests for functions & time they need to run.
What is EC2 Pricing?
Pay only for compute time that you use while instances are running.
What are considerations for AWS S3 Pricing?
- Storage
- Requests & Data Retrievals
- Data Transfer
- Management & Replication
What is the AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard?
Lets you pay AWS bill, monitor usage, & analyze/control costs.
What can you use the AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard?
- Compare your current month-to-date balance w/ previous month & get forecast of next month usage based on current usage.
- View month-to-date spend by service.
- Access Cost Explorer & create budgets
- Purchase & manage Savings Plans
- Publish AWS Cost & Usage Reports.
What is Consolidated Billing?
AWS Organizations feature that lets you recieve one bill for all AWS accounts in your organization.
What is the default number of maximum accounts allowed for an AWS Organization?
4
What is one benefit of Consolidated Billing?
Lets you to share volume pricing discounts across accounts.
What are AWS Budgets?
Lets you create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, & instance reservations.
You can also set alerts when usage exceeds your budgets.
How often is AWS Budgets Information updated?
3 times a day
What is AWS Cost Explorer?
Lets you visualize, understand, & manage your AWS costs over time.
- Includes a default cost & usage report for top 5 accruing services.
What is the Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
AWS Primary point of contact if you use Enterprise or Enterprise-On-Ramp which helps educate, empower, & evolve cloud journey through AWS services.
What are the AWS Marketplace categories?
- Infrastructure Software
- DevOps
- Data Products
- Professional Services
- Business Applications
- Machine Learning
- Industries
- Internet of Things (IoT)
What are the types of AWS Budgets?
- Cost Budget:
Plan how much you want to spend on service. - Usage Budget
Plan how much you want to use one or more services. - Reservation Budget
Track usage of your Reserved Instances (RI).
