AWS Billing and Pricing Section
Four AWS support plans
Basic - billing and account support only Developer - business support via email Business - 24x7 email, chat and phone support Enterprise - 24x7 email, chat and phone support Enterprise comes with Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Spot Instances
Purchase spare computing with no upfront commitment. Recommended for apps that have a flexible start and end time. AWS can terminate this instance with a 2 minute warning
EC2 Pricing Models
On-demand Reserved Instances Spot Instances Dedicated Hosts Savings Plans
Tags and Keys
Value pairs that can be attached to AWS resources. Tags contain MetaData (data about data). Tags can be placed in groups
Amazon Elastic File System
2 storage classes: Standard Infrequent Access Storage
VPC (free) however these are chargeable
AWS Site-to-site VPN connection AWS PrivateLink Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring NAT Gateway
Free Stuff
Amazon VPC Elastic Beanstalk (but not resources created) CloudFormation (NRC) Identity Access management Auto Scaling (NRC) Consolidated Billing
Reserved Instances
Pay for capacity ahead of time and offers discounts up to 75% off of On-Demand prices. Good for predictable workloads where customers commit to a 1-3 year term.
EC2 Pricing
Pay for compute instances in the cluster.
On-demand
Pay for compute or database capacity with no long-term commitments or upfront payments. Good for unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted.
AWS Lambda pricing
Pay for what one uses base on the number of requests and time it takes to execute code.