AWS CCP 4 - Billing and Pricing

Business Support Plan

$100/ month Everything in Developer Plan Tech support via chat or phone, 24/7 Third Party Support available Production System Impaired <4 hrs Production system Down <1 hr All Trusted advisor Check

Enterprise Support Plan

$15000/month All supported in Business Plan Personal Concierge TAM (Technical Account Manager) Business Critical system down response time is <15 mins All trusted Advisor checks

Developer Support Plan

$20/ month Tech Support via Email ~ 24 hrs General Guidance response time <24 hrs System Impaired response time <12 hrs 7 Trusted Advisor Checks

RI Class Scheduled

- Savings vary; reserve instances for specific time periods like once a week for a few hours

RI Class Convertible

- Upto 54% reduced pricing compared to On demand, -- allows change in RI attributes if greater or equal in value

RI Class Standard

- Upto 75% reduced pricing compared to On demand, -- cannot change RI attributes

Reserved Instances (RI)

- upto 75% off - Best long term value - Use Case: steady state or predictable usage - can resell unused reserved instances in the reserved instances marketplace -Reduced pricing is based on Term X class Offering X payment option - Payment Terms 1 or 3 year

Spot Pricing

-Biggest Savings - upto 90% off - request spare computing capacity( like flights filling vacant seats last minute for a discount) - adjust based on supply and demand - will need to be comfortable with flexible start and end time - Use Case: can handle interruptions(server randomly stopping and starting), like non critical background jobs

AWS Landing Zone

-Provides a baseline environment to get started with a multi account architecture Helps Enterprises quickly set up a secure AWS multi account

cost explorer

-forecast cost based on previous usage visualize, understand and manage usage for consolidated Billing ex: all expenses just for the developer account can be segmented

AWS Budget

-plan service usage, service costs and instance reservation - first two ______ are free - each _____ after is $.02/ day - limit of 20,000 _____

AWS Cost and Usage Report

-tool that allows you to view the most granular/ detailed data about your bill -most comprehensive set of cost and usage data

EC2 Pricing Models

1. On Demand 2. Spot 3. Reserved Instances 4. Dedicated

AWS Sales Representative AWS Pricing Calculator

A company is planning to adopt a hybrid cloud architecture with AWS. Which of the following can they use to assist them in estimating their costs?

Business & Enterprise

AWS Support plans that include Infrastructure Event Management

Forecasting

Cost Explorer feature get idea of future cost

Basic Support Plan

Free Email support only for billing and Account 7 Trusted Advisor Checks

Auto scaling Cloud Formation Elastic Beanstalk

Free Services that may provision other services that cost

Free Services

IAM Amazon VPC

Spot Instance Termination Rules

If instance is terminated by AWS then, there will be no charge on the customers end If instance is terminated by customer, they will be charged for any hour that it ran.

Spot

Instances can be terminated by AWS at any time for this pricing model

On Demand

Least Commitment Only pay by the hour -Use Case: Short term, spiky, unpredictable work load, first time apps - Ideal for uninterrupted workload

Dedicated Hosting

Most Expensive -dedicated servers - physical isolation of customer workload -can be on demand or reserved ( upto 70% off) Use Case: when need a guarantee of isolate hardware like enterprise requirements

Consolidated Billing

One bill for all of your accounts - designate one master account that pays the charges of all other member accounts -feature turned on by default with no additional cost

RI Class offerings

Standard Convertible Scheduled

AWS Trusted Advisor

advises you on security, saving money, performance, service limits and fault tolerance

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

allows you to estimate how much can be saved when moving from on premise to AWS - provides a detailed set of reports that can be used in executive presentations

AWS Marketplace

curated digital catalogue with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors

Volume discounts

the more you use, the more you save Consolidated billing feature