AWS pt 3 Flashcards
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AWS Organizations (Billing)
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- Manage multiple AWS accounts
- Consolidated billing
- Combined usage (Use reserved), pricing benefits
- Management account can turn off reserved sharing
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AWS Organizations (Service Control Policies)
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- Restrict User Access
- Does not apply to master account
- Must have explicit Allow (Deny by default)
- Enforce PCI compliance by disabling services
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AWS Organization (Multi Account strategies)
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- Create account per department
- Use tagging for billing
- Cloudtrail used for logs sent to S3
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AWS Control Tower
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- Runs on top of AWS organizations
- Automates consolidated billing
- Detects policy violations and remediates them
- Monitors compliance
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AWS Resource Access Manager (v)
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- Share with other accounts
6
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AWS Service Catalog
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- New users may have too many options: create stacks that are not compliant
- Some may want self-service portals: launch aauthorized products pre-determined by admins
7
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Pricing models of AWs
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- pay as you go
- save when you reserve
- pay less by using more
- pay less as AWS grows
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Compute pricing (EC2)
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- Only charged for what you use
- Number of instances
- Instance configuration
- ELB running time and amount of data processed
- Detailed monitoring
- On-demand, Spot Instances (-90%), Reserved Instances (-75%), Dedicated Hosts (1&3 year commitments)
- Charged for data transfers between different regions
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Compute Pricing (Lambda, ECS)
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- Lambda: per call and duration
- ECS: Pay for resources stored and created
- Fargate: Pay for VCPU and memory allocated
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Storage Pricing for S3, EFS
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- Number and size of objects: Price can be tiered
- Number and type of requests
- Data transfer out of S3
- S3 transfer acceleration
- Lifecycle transitions
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Storage Pricing for EBS
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- Volume type
- Storage Volume (GB per month)
- IOPS: General purposes, provisioned amount in IOPS, magnetic (number of requests)
- SnapShots: Added data per cost in GB per month, inbound is free
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RDS Pricing
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- per hour billing
- DB characteristics (Engine, size, memory class)
- Purchase type (on-demand, reserved instance with required up-front)
- Backup storage: No additional charge unless its additional
- Number of IOPS requests per month
- Deployment type (Single AZ, multi AZ)
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Content Delivery (CloudFront)
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- Pricing is different across geo locations
- Aggregated for each edge location
- Data Transfer out
- Number of HTTP requests
14
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Network costs in AWS per GB
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- Private IP instead of public IP
- Use the same AZ for max cost saving
15
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Saving Plan
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- Easiest way to set up long term commitments
16
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EC2 Savings Plan
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- -75% than on demand
- Commit to usage of individual instance families in a region
- Regardless of AZ, OS or tenancy
17
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Compute Savings Plan
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- Up to 66% discount
- Regardless of family, region, size, OS, tenancy etc
- EC2, ECS, Fargate
18
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AWS Compute Optimizer
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- Reduce cost and improve performance by recommending optimal AWS resources
- Use ML to analyze resource configuration and utilize cloudwatch metrics
- Supported resources: EC2, ASG, EBS, Lambda
- 25% discount
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AWS Pricing Calculator
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- Estimate cost for your Solutions Architecture
- For those who want to reorganize or expand their usage
- If they’ve had no experience with it
20
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AWS Billing Dashboard
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- Just a high level overview of your costs
21
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Cost Allocation Tags
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- Track your cost on a detailed level
- AWS Generated Tags: Auto-connected to resources you create, start with prefix AWS
- User Defined Tags: Defined by user prefix start with user
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Cost and Usage Report
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- Dive deeper into your AWS cost and usage
- Comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available
- Cost can be integrated with Athena Redshift and Quicksight
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Cost Explorer
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- Visualize, understand and manage your AWS cost and usage overtime
- Create custom reports that analyze cost and usage data at a high level across all accounts
- Forecasts usage up to 12 months
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Billing Alarms in Cloudwatch
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- Simple alerts
- Billing alarms is stored here
- For actual costs
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AWS Budgets
- Send alarms when costs exceed the budget
- Usage, Cost, Reservation, Savings Plans
- **For reserved instances (track utilization)**
- Supports EC2, ElastiCache, RDS, Redshift
- Up to 5 SNS notifications per budget
- Same options as Cost Explorer
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AWS Cost Anamoly Service
- Continuously monitor your cost and usage using ML to detect unusual spends
- Learns your unique, historic spend patterns
- Monitors AWS services, member accounts, cost allocation tags or cost categories
- **Root cause analysis**
- **Individual slerts or daily/weekly summaries**
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AWS Service Quotas
- Notify when you're close to a service quota value threshold
- Request a quota increase from 'AWS Service quotas' or shutdown resources before a limit is achieved
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AWS Trusted Advisor
- No need to install anything
- Gives you a high-level assessment
- Provides recommendations: Cost, security, **service limits, performance, fault tolerance, operational excellence**
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Basic (AWS support plan)
- 24/7 access to customer service, support forums, documentations, whitepapers and support forums
- AWS Trusted advisor (7 core)
- Personal health dashboard
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AWS Developer Support Plan
- Business Hour email access
- Unlimited access / 1 primary contact
- General guidance (24h), Systems impaired (1h)
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AWS Business Support Plan
- Production workloads
- Trusted Advisor: Full set of access and API access
- **24/7 phone, email, and chat access to engineers**
- **Unlimited cases / contacts**
- Access to infra event management for additional fees
- Systems impaired (4h) and production down (1h)
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AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan
- production or business critical workloads
- Technical account manager and **concierge support team**
- **system down (30m)**
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Enterprise Support Plan
- Infra event management, well architected & operations reviews
- Mission critical workloads
- 15m
