AWS Storage Gateway | Billing Flashcards
How does the AWS Storage Gateway manage updates?
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AWS Storage Gateway periodically deploys important updates and software patches to your gateway virtual machine (VM). You can configure a weekly maintenance schedule allowing you to control when these updates will be applied to your gateway. Alternatively, you can apply updates manually when they are made available, either through the AWS Storage Gateway Console or API. Updates should take only a few minutes to complete. For more information, please visit the Managing Gateway Updates section of out documentation.
How will I be billed for my use of AWS Storage Gateway?
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There are 3 elements to how you will be billed for AWS Storage Gateway: storage, requests, and data transfer. For detailed pricing information, please visit the AWS Storage Gateway Pricing page.
How will I be charged for file storage when using a file gateway?
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File gateways stores data directly in Amazon S3. You are billed by Amazon S3 for the objects stored and requests made by your file gateway. For more information, please visit the Amazon S3 Pricing page.
How will I be charged for volume or virtual tape storage when using a volume or tape gateway?
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You are billed for the amount of volume and virtual tape data you store in AWS. This fee is prorated daily and prices vary by region. You are only billed for the portion of volume or virtual tape capacity that you use, not for the provisioned size of the resource. All volume and virtual tape data is compressed before it is transferred to AWS by the gateway, which can reduce your storage charges. For detailed pricing information, please visit the AWS Storage Gateway Pricing page.
How will I be charged for EBS snapshots taken from my AWS Storage Gateway volumes?
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EBS snapshots taken from your Storage Gateway volumes are stored and billed by Amazon EBS. When taking a new snapshot only the data that has changed since your last snapshot is stored to reduce your storage charges. For more information, please visit the Amazon EBS Pricing page.
How will I be charged for reading and writing data?
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When your gateway writes data to AWS you will be charged at a flat rate of $0.01 per GB of data written to AWS up to a monthly maximum of no more than $125 per gateway. There is no charge for reading data from AWS. Since the gateway performs caching, bandwidth optimization, and, for volume and tape gateways, compression, the amount of data written to AWS may be less than the amount of data written to the gateway by your application. You can monitor the amount of data written by your gateway to AWS through the provided Amazon CloudWatch metrics and you can configure bandwidth limits on your gateway to manage your costs.
How will I be charged when retrieving data an archived virtual tape?
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You are charged when retrieving a virtual tape that has been archived at a flat rate of $0.01 per GB of data stored on the tape. For example, retrieving 5 tapes that contain 100 GB each would cost 5 x 100GB x $0.01 = $5.00.
How will I be charged for deleting an archived virtual tape that is less than 3 months old?
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If a virtual tape is deleted within three months of being archived, you will be charged an early deletion fee. If the virtual tape has been stored for three months or longer there is no charge for deletion.
In the US East (Northern Virginia) Region, you would be charged a prorated early deletion fee of $0.012 per GB deleted within three months. For example, if you delete 1 virtual tape containing 1 GB of data 1 month after uploading it, you would be charged a $0.008 early deletion fee. If, instead you delete the same virtual tape after 2 months, you would be charged a $0.004 early deletion fee.
How will I be charged for network data transfer to and from AWS when using AWS Storage Gateway?
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You are billed for Internet data transfer for each GB downloaded from AWS to your gateway. All data transfer for uploading to AWS is free.
How can I tell how much storage I am going to be billed for?
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AWS Storage Gateway | Storage
The Billing and Cost Management console shows an estimate of month-to-date usage for each service, including AWS Storage Gateway volumes and virtual tapes. For a breakdown of usage by individual volume or virtual tape Detailed Billing Reports enables you to see usage for each resource on a daily basis.
When using file gateway, will I incur S3 request charges?
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You will pay for the S3 requests made by file gateway on your behalf to store and retrieve your files in S3 as objects. The gateway caches data up to the capacity of the local disks you allocate, which can help reduce costs for data retrieval.
When does each monthly billing cycle begin?
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AWS Storage Gateway | Storage
The billing system follows Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The calendar month begins midnight UTC on the first day of every month.
