AWS Billing and Governance Flashcards
(36 cards)
What are the 3 fundamental drivers of cost?
- Compute: hourly from launch to termination
- Storage: data store in the cloud
- Outbound data transfer: Data in flight moving between systems
What are the 3 different types of free offers available?
- 12 months Free: 12months’s free usage following your intitial signup date to AWS.
- Always Free: Offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers.
- Trials: Short-term free trials starting from the date you activate a particual service
What are the 5 EC2 Pricing model?
- On-demand - you pay by the hour or by the second without pre-paying
- Savings plan - Commit to compute usage measured per hour for 1-3 year term
- Reserved instances - Commit to usefor 1 or 3 years pay regardlless of usage
- Spot instances - instances only launch if spare capacity is available
- Dedicated hosts - an entire phytsical server just for you
What is the AWS Lambda Pricing Model?
- Number of Requests: Includes test invokes from console
- Code execution time: From execution start in response to events to stop
- Always Free: 1 million requests per month
What is the AWS S3 Pricing Model?
- Storage class: the type of storage choosen
- Storage: Number and size of objects
- Data transfer: Data transferred out of S3 Region
- Request and data Retrieval: requests made for data and amount of requests
What is RDS Pricing Model?
- Running clock hours
- Type of database
- Storage
- Purchase type
- Database count
- API requests
- Deployment type
- Data transfer
What is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?
TCO is a financial estimate that helps you understand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS.
What is Application Discovery Service?
Application Discovery Service helps you plan migration projects to the AWS Cloud.
- Plan migration projects
- Used to estimate TCO
- Works with other service to migrate servers
Ways to Reduce Your TCO Using AWS?
- Minimize capital expenditures: AWS helps you to minimize large capital expenditures, which reduces TCO
- Utilize reserved instances: AWS provides Rserved Instances to help you lock in savings and reduce TCO
- Right size tour reqources: AWS helps you to match the provisioning of resources to your usage needs to reduce TCO
What is Amazon Budgets?
Amazon Budgets allows you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount.
- Improve planning and cost control
- Cost, usage, and reservation budgets
- Budgets alerts
Whar are the 3 Budget Types?
- Cost budgets: Plan on how much you want to spend on a service
- Usage Budgets: Plan on how much you want use on one or more services
- Reservation Budgets: Set RIs or Savings plans utilization or covergage targets
What is Cost and Usage Report?
The Cost and Usage Report contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data.
- Downloadable detailed and comprehensive report
- Lists usage for each service category
- Aggregate usage data on a daily, hourly, or monthly level
Cost and Usage Report in the Real World?
The Cost and Usage Report gives you the ability to do a deep dive into your AWS cost and usage data. Once set up, you can download the report using the Amazon S3 console.
What Amazon Cost Explorer?
Cost Explorer allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time.
- Visualize costs over time
- View past 12 months
- Forecast for up to 3 months
Cost Explorer in the Real World?
If you are considering your options for Savings Plans, AWS Cost Explorer can analyze your EC2 usage over the past 7, 30, or 60 days.
What is Amazon Organizations?
Amazon Organizations allows you to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella.
- Group multiple accounts
- Single payment for all accounts
- Automate account creation
- Allocate resources and apply policies across accounts
What are the benefits of Amazon Organisations?
- Consolidated Billing: The advantage of consolidated billing is that you receive one bill for multiple accounts.
- Cost Savings: You’ll receive volume discounts since usage is combined across accounts.
- Account Governance:You have a quick and automated way to create accounts or invite existing accounts.
What is Amazon Organizations in the Real World usecase?
Amazon Organizations allows you to save money using Reserved Instance (RI) sharing. RI sharing allows all accounts in the organization to receive the hourly cost-benefit of RIs purchased by any other account. You can always turn off RI sharing using the master payer (or root) organization.
What is Amazon Control Tower?
Amazon Control Tower helps you ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies.
- Helps set up new accounts using a multi-account strategy
- Works directly with AWS Organizations
- Enforces the best use of services across accounts
- Provides a dashboard to manage accounts
What is Amazon Control Tower in the Real World?
Amazon Control Tower allows you to govern your multi-account environment by enabling cross-account security audits or preventing or detecting security issues through mandatory or optional guardrails.
What is Amazon Systems Manager?
Amazon Systems Manager gives you visibility and control over your AWS resources.
- Automate operational tasks on your resources
- Group resources and take action
- Patch and run commands on multiple EC2 instances or manage RDS instances
What is Amazon Systems Manager in the Real World?
Amazon Systems Manager allows you to auto-patch software running on EC2 instances according to a schedule.
What is AWS Trusted Advisor?
AWS Trusted Advisor provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.
- Checks your account and makes recommendations
- Helps you see service limits
- Helps you understand best practices
What are AWS Trusted Advisor popular recommendations?
- Checks for unrestricted access for specific ports on EC2 instances (Free)
- Checks S3 bucket permissions to determine if public access(Free)
- Checks for multi-factor authentication (MFA) on root account (Free)
- Checks IAM password policy
- Checks for RDS public snapshots (Free)
- Checks for service usage greater than 80% over service limit
- Checks for exposed access keys
- Checks for CloudFront content delivery optimization
