SCP Flashcards

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AWS Organizations does not offer faster access to the AWS Support?

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AWS Organizations is primarily a service that helps you manage multiple AWS accounts centrally, rather than a service designed to enhance or speed up access to AWS Support.

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Business Support Plan is the most cost-effective option that offers 24x7 phone, email, and chat support

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the Business Support Plan is designed to provide comprehensive support for a wide range of use cases, making it a cost-effective choice for businesses that require reliable and accessible support.

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The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator is an easy-to-use online tool that enables you to estimate their architecture solution monthly cost of AWS services for your use case based on your expected usage. It is being replaced by AWS Pricing Calculator.

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AWS Simple Monthly Calculator was an online tool provided by AWS to estimate the monthly cost of AWS services based on expected usage. However, it is being replaced by the AWS Pricing Calculator

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The Enterprise Support Plan comes with a business-critical system down response under 15 minutes and offers access to a Technical Account Manager, as well as a Concierge Support Team. It is the only plan to have these features.

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true

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AWS Pricing Calculator is a web based service that you can use to create cost estimates to suit your AWS use cases. AWS Pricing Calculator is useful both for people who have never used AWS and for those who want to reorganize or expand their usage.

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true

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AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. Difference with CloudWatch Billing Alarms: CloudWatch Billing Alarms only send alerts when your costs and usage are exceeding your budget, not when it is forecasted to exceed your budget, while AWS Budgets does both.

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Cost Explorer can be used to forecast usage up to 12 months based on the previous usage. It can also be used to choose an optimal Savings Plan. Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

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true

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AWS Compute Optimizer recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics.

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true

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AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. It establishes a landing zone that is based on best-practices blueprints, and enables governance using guardrails you can choose from a pre-packaged list.

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true

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9
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Which services are free to use in AWS?

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IAM, VPC, Consolidated Billing, and Elastic Beanstalk
These services are free to use. Be careful, the resources created in Elastic Beanstalk (as well as in CloudFormation and Auto Scaling Groups) are not free.

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CloudFront pricing is different across different geographic regions.

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true

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When the upfront payment is higher, the discount is bigger.

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true

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Compute Savings Plans provide the most flexibility and help to reduce your costs by up to 66% in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage for a 1 or 3 year term. These plans automatically apply to EC2 instance usage regardless of instance family, size, AZ, region, OS or tenancy, and also apply to Fargate or Lambda usage.

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true

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With Linux EC2 instances, you pay per second of compute capacity. There is also a minimum of 60s of use.

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true

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Reservations are available for EC2 Reserved Instances, DynamoDB Reserved Capacity, ElastiCache Reserved Nodes, RDS Reserved Instance, Redshift Reserved Nodes. Reservations allow you to minimize risks, predictably manage budgets and comply with long-term requirements.

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true

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Reserved Instances are good and more cost-effective (up to 69% discount compared to On-demand pricing, depending on the upfront) for long workloads. You can reserve instances for 1 or 3 years in RDS.

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true

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AWS Directory Service makes it easy for you to setup and run directories in the AWS cloud, or connect your AWS resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory.

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true

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AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) is a web service that enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users or for users that you authenticate (federated users).

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true

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Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.

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true