Pricing & Support

Question 1

What is AWS Free Tier

Answer 1

Lets you start using certain services without having to pay for specified period.

Question 2

What are 3 AWS Free Tier Types?

Answer 2

• Always Free
• 12 Months Free
• Trials

Question 3

What is the Always Free Tier?

Answer 3

Offers don’t expire & available to all AWS customers.

Question 4

What services are in Always Free Tier?

Answer 4

• AWS Lambda
• Amazon DynamoDB

Question 5

What is the 12 Months Free Tier?

Answer 5

Free for 12 months after initial AWS sign-up date.

Question 6

What services are in 12 Months Free Tier?

Answer 6

• S3 Standard Storage - specific amounts of space.
• EC2 compute time (threshold for monthly hours)
• CloudFront (data transfer out amounts).

Question 7

What is the Trial Free Tier?

Answer 7

Short-term free trial from when you activate a particular service where length of time varies by number of days or service usage.

Question 8

What services are in the Trial Free Tier?

Answer 8

• Amazon Inspector has 90-day free Trial
• Amazon Lightsail has 750 free usage hours over 30-day period.

Question 9

What are the AWS Pricing Categories?

Answer 9

• Pay for what you use
• Pay less when you reserve
• Pay less w/ volume based discounts when you use more

Question 10

What does “Pay for What You Use?” mean?

Answer 10

You pay for amount of resources you use w/out long-term contracts or complex licensing.

Question 11

What does “Pay less w/ volume based discounts when you use more?”

Answer 11

Service can offer tiered price so per-unit cost is lower w/ more usage.

Question 12

What is AWS Pricing Calculator?

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

What is the Compute Savings Plan?

Answer 13

Offers lower compute costs in exchange for committing to consistent usage amount over 1 - 3 year term (paying less when you reserve)

Question 14

What is AWS Lambda Pricing?

Answer 14

Pay for number of requests for functions & time they need to run.

Question 15

What is EC2 Pricing?

Answer 15

Pay only for compute time that you use while instances are running.

Question 16

What are considerations for AWS S3 Pricing?

Answer 16

• Storage
• Requests & Data Retrievals
• Data Transfer
• Management & Replication

Question 17

What is the AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard?

Answer 17

Lets you pay AWS bill, monitor usage, & analyze/control costs.

Question 18

What can you use the AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard?

Answer 18

• 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.

Question 19

What is Consolidated Billing?

Answer 19

AWS Organizations feature that lets you recieve one bill for all AWS accounts in your organization.

Question 20

What is the default number of maximum accounts allowed for an AWS Organization?

Answer 20

4

Question 21

What is one benefit of Consolidated Billing?

Answer 21

Lets you to share volume pricing discounts across accounts.

Question 22

What are AWS Budgets?

Answer 22

Lets you create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, & instance reservations.
You can also set alerts when usage exceeds your budgets.

Question 23

How often is AWS Budgets Information updated?

Answer 23

3 times a day

Question 24

What is AWS Cost Explorer?

Answer 24

Lets you visualize, understand, & manage your AWS costs over time.
- Includes a default cost & usage report for top 5 accruing services.

Question 25

What is the Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

Answer 25

AWS Primary point of contact if you use Enterprise or Enterprise-On-Ramp which helps educate, empower, & evolve cloud journey through AWS services.

Question 26

What are the AWS Marketplace categories?

Answer 26

• Infrastructure Software
• DevOps
• Data Products
• Professional Services
• Business Applications
• Machine Learning
• Industries
• Internet of Things (IoT)