AWS cloud practitioner notes - Pricing and support
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Types of free tiers:
- Always free
- 12 months free
- Trials
Special services
- The AWS lambda service allows for 1 million free invocations per month
- Amazon S3 is free for 12 months for up to 5GB of standard storage
- AWS Lightsail offers 1 month trial of up to 750 hours of usage
- DynamoDB offers 25GB of free storage per month
Module 8 - Pricing concepts
- Pay for what you use
- Pay less when you reserve
- Pay less with a volume-based discount when you use more
Module 8 - Billing dashboard
The billing dashboard has the following information:
- Monthly-to-Date Spend by Service
- Total month-to-date spend aggregated and forecast
- Top 5 Free Tier Services by Usage
- Access to Cost Explorer budget and bill
The bill is split by services, and then regions
Module 8 - Consolidated billing
Companies are likely to have more than one AWS account, and as such, it is possible to manage them in a single place (AWS organizations). AWS organizations have the feature consolidated billing, at the end of the month, instead of paying the bill for each AWS account, you can generate a single one for the owner of the organization.
- If you have a saving cost plan it can be shared across AWS accounts in the organization
Module 8 - AWS budgets
AWS budgets allow you to set budgets for cost and usage, in addition, you can configure alerts based on thresholds for those budgets.
Module 8 - AWS Cost Explorer
Allows you to visualize see and analyze how you are spending your money on AWS.
Module 8 - AWS support plans
By default, every customer at AWS gets the basic **support, at no additional cost. The basic support offers:
- 24/7 customer service
- Documentation
- Whitepapers
- Support forums
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Therefore, AWS offers the Developer support as well:
- It covers everything in the basic support
- Email access to customer support
Business support:
- It covers everything in the basic support and developer support
- AWS Trusted Advisor provides a full set of best practice checks
- Direct phone access to cloud support engineers
- Infrastructure event management
Enterprise support:
- It covers everything in the basic support, developer support and business support
- 15-minutes SLA for business-critical workloads
- Dedicated technical account manager (TAM)
TAMs work together with customers to offer architecture reviews based on a well-architected framework, that is based on five pillars:
- Operational Excellence
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance Efficiency
- Cost Optimization
Module 8 - AWS marketplace
AWS Marketplace is a catalog that has thousands of software from independent software vendors (enterprise-focused features).
- Custom terms and pricing
- A private marketplace
- Integration into your procurement systems
- Cost management tools
Categories
| Business applications | Data & Analytics | Dev ops | Infrastructure software |
| IoT | Machine Learning | Migration | Security |