AWS Billing and Pricing Flashcards

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AWS Basic Support Plan

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7 core checks Billing and account support only (access to forums only)

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7 core checks business hours support via email Developer allows one person to open unlimited cases General Guidance: <24 hours System impaired: <12 hours General Architectural Guidance

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Full Set of Checks 24×7 email, chat, and phone support. allow unlimited contacts to open unlimited cases General Guidance: <24 hours System impaired: <12 hours Production impaired: < 4 hours Production system down: < 1 hour Architectural Guidance contextual to your use-cases Access to AWS Support API for Programmatic Case Management Proactive Programs and Services: Access to Infrastructure Event Management for additional fee

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Full Set of Checks 24×7 email, chat, and phone support. allow unlimited contacts to open unlimited cases General Guidance: <24 hours System impaired: <12 hours Production impaired: < 4 hours Production system down: < 1 hour Business Critical System down: < 15 minutes Architectural Guidance: Consultative review and guidance based on your applications Access to AWS Support API for Programmatic Case Management Proactive Programs and Services: Access to Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected Reviews, Access to proactive reviews, workshops, and deep dives Enterprise support comes with a Technical Account Manager (TAM): TAM proactively monitors your environment and assists with optimization and coordinate access to programs and AWS experts Concierge Support Team Account Assistance

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Tags contain metadata (data about data). Tags can sometimes be inherited – e.g. resources created by Auto Scaling, CloudFormation or Elastic Beanstalk.

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Resource groups make it easy to group resources using the tags that are assigned to them. You can group resources that share one or more tags. Resource groups contain general information, such as: Region. Name. Health Checks. And specific information, such as: Public & private IP addresses (for EC2). Port configurations (for ELB). Database engine (for RDS).

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AWS organizations allows you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. Available in two feature sets: Consolidated Billing. All features. Includes root accounts and organizational units. Policies are applied to root accounts or OUs.

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Paying Account – independent and cannot access resources of other accounts. Linked Accounts – all linked accounts are independent.

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One bill – You get one bill for multiple accounts. Easy tracking – You can track the charges across multiple accounts and download the combined cost and usage data. Combined usage – You can combine the usage across all accounts in the organization to share the volume pricing discounts and Reserved Instance discounts. This can result in a lower charge for your project, department, or company than with individual standalone accounts. No extra fee – Consolidated billing is offered at no additional cost.

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Limit of 20 linked accounts (by default). One bill for multiple AWS accounts. Easy to track charges and allocate costs. Volume pricing discounts can be applied to resources. Billing alerts enabled on the Paying account include data for all Linked accounts (or can be created per Linked account). Consolidated billing allows you to get volume discounts on all your accounts. Unused reserved instances (RIs) for EC2 are applied across the group. CloudTrail is on a per account basis and per region basis but can be aggregated into a single bucket in the paying account.

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Quick Starts are built by AWS architects and partners to help you deploy popular solutions on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability. These reference deployments implement key technologies automatically on the AWS Cloud, often with a single click and in less than an hour. Leverages CloudFormation.

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AWS Cost Explorer – enables you to visualize your usage patterns over time and to identify your underlying cost drivers. AWS Pricing Calculator – create cost estimates to suit your AWS use cases.

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You can view cost data for the past 13 months and forecast how much you are likely to spend over the next three months. Cost Explorer can be used to discover patterns in how much you spend on AWS resources over time and to identify cost problem areas.

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Which services you use the most. View metrics for which AZ has the most traffic. Which linked account is used the most.

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AWS Pricing Calculator is useful both for people who have never used AWS and for those who want to reorganize or expand their usage. AWS Pricing Calculator allows you to explore AWS services based on your use cases and create a cost estimate.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Pricing Calculator

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Publish AWS billing reports to an Amazon S3 bucket. Reports break down costs by: Hour, day, month, product, product resource, tags. Can update the report up to three times a day. Create, retrieve, and delete your reports using the AWS CUR API Reference.

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Query the prices of AWS services. Price List Service API (AKA the Query API) – query with JSON. AWS Price List API (AKA the Bulk API) – query with HTML. Alerts via Amazon SNS when prices change.

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AWS Budgets

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Alerting through event-driven alert notifications for when actual or forecasted cost or usage exceeds your budget limit, or when your RI and Savings Plans’ coverage or utilization drops below your threshold. Create annual, quarterly, monthly, or even daily budgets depending on your business needs.