Pricing, Billing, And Governance

Question 1

The three fundamental drivers of cost

Answer 1

Compute, storage, and outbound data transfer

Question 2

The three free offer types

Answer 2

12 months, always free, and trials

Question 3

What are the five ways to pay for Amazon EC2 instances?

Answer 3

On demand, savings plan, reserved instances, spot instances, dedicated hosts

Question 4

On demand pricing for EC2 instances

Answer 4

Pay by the hour or by the second without pre-paying

Question 5

Savings plan pricing plan for EC2 instances

Answer 5

Commit to compute usage measured per hour for a 1 or 3 year term

Question 6

Reserved Instances pricing plan for EC2 instances 

Answer 6

Commit to usage for 1 or 3 years; pay regardless of usage

Question 7

Spot instances pricing plan for EC2 instances

Answer 7

Instances only launch if spare capacity is available

Question 8

Dedicated host pricing plan for EC2 instances

Answer 8

An entire physical server dedicated just for the client

Question 9

2 ways you are charged when using Lambda?

Answer 9

1. Number of requests
2. Code execution time
3. Always free (1 million requests per month)

Question 10

For S3 buckets, 4 ways to pay by:

Answer 10

1. Storage class
2. Storage
3. Data transfer: data transferred out of the S3 region
4. Request and data retrieval: requests made for data & the amount of requests made.

Question 11

What are the 8 features that drive RDS pricing?

Answer 11

1. Running clock hours
2. Type of database
3. Storage
4. Purchase type
5. Database count
6. API requests and calls
7. Deployment type
8. Data transfer

Question 12

Total cost of ownership (TCO)

Answer 12

A financial estimate that helps you understand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS.

Question 13

Application discovery Service

Answer 13

Helps you plan migration projects to the AWS cloud; is used to estimate your TCO.

Question 14

3 ways to reduce your TCO using AWS

Answer 14

1. minimize Capital expenditures
2. Utilize reserved instances
3. Right size your instances

Question 15

The AWS pricing calculator

Answer 15

Estimates the cost for your architecture solution.

Question 16

AWS price list API

Answer 16

Allows you to query the price of AWS services.
Query using JSON or HTML
Receive price alerts when prices change

Question 17

AWS Budgets

Answer 17

Budgets allows you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount.

Question 18

What are the three budget types?

Answer 18

1. cost
2. usage
3. Reservation

Question 19

Cost and usage report

Answer 19

A downloadable report that contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data.

Question 20

Cost explorer

Answer 20

Allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time.

Question 21

Cost allocation tags

Answer 21

Tags that can help you track spending

Question 22

AWS Organizations

Answer 22

An AWS service that allows you to manage multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella

Question 23

Three benefits of AWS Organizations

Answer 23

1. consolidate billing
2. Cost savings
3. Account governance

Question 24

Control tower

Answer 24

Helps ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies

Question 25

Systems manager

Answer 25

A service that gives you visibility and control over your AWS resources. That helps you maintain your resources through automatic patching and updates.

Question 26

What are Service Control Policies (SCP) used for and for what?

Answer 26

Service control policies are used by the Organizations AWS service and they are used to enforce permissions that you want everyone in the organization to follow.

Question 27

Trusted Advisor

Answer 27

Online tool that provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. 

Question 28

License Manager

Answer 28

Helps you manage software licenses, including on-premises or AWS-based Oracle licenses. 

Question 29

Certificate Manager

Answer 29

Helps you provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates. Provides free public and private certificates.

Question 30

Managed Services

Answer 30

Helps you officially operate your AWS infrastructure so you can focus on building your apps. Augments your staff and helps improve your overall operational efficiency. 

Question 31

Professional Services

Answer 31

A service that helps enterprise customers move to a cloud-based operating model. Propose, architect, and implement solutions.

Question 32

What are the support plans that AWS offers? And what are the prices?

Answer 32

1. Basic - free 2. Developer -$29 per mo 3. Business - $100 per mo 4. Enterprise - $15,000 per mo

Question 33

What does the basic support plan include?

Answer 33

Account & billing Support Service limit increases Customer service access 24/7 via email only

Question 34

What does the developer support plan include?

Answer 34

Account and billing support Service line increases Technical support Allowed 1 primary contact Unlimited cases Cloud support associate access business hours via email only Faster response times

Question 35

What does the business support plan include?

Answer 35

Account and billing support Service limit increases Technical support Unlimited contacts and cases Full set of Trusted Advisor checks Access to cloud support engineers 24/7 via email phone or chat Faster response times regarding production system impaired cases

Question 36

What does the enterprise support plan include?

Answer 36

Account and billing support Service limiting increases Technical support Unlimited contacts and cases Technical account manager Concierge support team Full set of trusted advisor checks 24/7 access via email phone and chat Less than 15 minute response time for a business critical system down