Billing and Pricing

Question 1

What are the three types of free services on AWS Free Tier?

Answer 1

> Always free
12-month free
Trials

Question 2

What are the three main pricing concepts for working out cost of services on AWS?

Answer 2

(1) what you use,
(2) pay less when you reserve, and
(3) use volume based discounts to pay less

Question 3

What service would you use to estimate the pricing of a service?

Answer 3

AWS Pricing Calculator.

Question 4

What service would you use to set your budget for usage?

Answer 4

AWS Budgets

Question 5

What service would you use to track and explore your historical spending?

Answer 5

AWS Cost Explorer

Question 6

What is the pricing per function call, and duration, in AWS Lambda?

Answer 6

Function calls:
> First 1 million calls free
> $0.20 per 1 million afterwards
Duration:
> 400,000 GB-seconds per month for free
> $1.00 for 600,000 GB-seconds afterwards

Question 7

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that allows for one-hour target response time for support cases?

Answer 7

Business

Question 8

Which is the minimum AWS Support plan that includes Infrastructure Event Management without additional costs?
A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

Answer 8

A. Enterprise

Question 9

Which is the MINIMUM AWS Support plan that provides technical support through phone calls?
A. Enterprise
B. Business
C. Developer
D. Basic

Answer 9

B. Business

Question 10

What tool would you use to produce forecasts of costs for your AWS services in the future?

Answer 10

AWS Cost Explorer.

Question 11

What services provides the most granular historical costing of your services, e.g. per service per hour on each day?

Answer 11

AWS Cost and Usage report.

Question 12

What types of Amazon EC2 Savings Plans are there?

Answer 12

1) EC2 Savings Plan

Save up to 72%. Commit to usage of specific instances within specific regions (that you have to pick up front). AZ, Size, OS, tenancy don’t matter.

2) Compute Savings Plan (more flexible)

Save up to 66%, can change instance type and region.
Can use with EC2, Lambda, or Fargate.

Question 13

What support plan do you need to be on to get access to Full Trusted Advisor?

Answer 13

Business, or Enterprise.

Question 14

CloudFront pricing is the same in every geographic region. True or False?

Answer 14

False.

Question 15

What is the most cost-effective option to have 24x7 phone, email, and chat support?

Answer 15

Business.