AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER ESSENTIALS MODULE 8

What are the three types of offers that are available?

-Always Free -12 Months Free -Trials For each free tier offer, make sure to review the specific details about exactly which resource types are included.

What is the AWS Marketplace?

A digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors. You can use AWS Marketplace to find, test, and buy software that runs on AWS.

What is AWS Cost Explorer?

A tool that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

Which pricing tool enables you to receive alerts when your service usage exceeds a threshold that you have defined?

AWS Budgets -In AWS Budgets, you can set custom alerts that will notify you when your service usage exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) the amount that you have budgeted.

Which pricing tool is used to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time?

AWS Cost Explorer. -AWS Cost Explorer includes a default report of the costs and usage for your top five cost-accruing AWS services. You can apply custom filters and groups to analyze your data. For example, you can view resource usage at the hourly level.

Which service or resource is used to find third-party software that runs on AWS?

AWS Marketplace.

How many support plans does AWS offer?

AWS offers four different Support plans to help you troubleshoot issues, lower costs, and efficiently use AWS services. -Basic -Developer -Business -Enterprise

Which Support plan includes all AWS Trusted Advisor checks at the lowest cost?

BUSINESS Only the Business and Enterprise Support plans include all AWS Trusted Advisor checks. Of these two Support plans, the Business Support plan has a lower cost.

Which action can you perform with consolidated billing?

Create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS.

What is the benefit developer support?

Customers in the Developer Support plan have access to features such as: Best practice guidance Client-side diagnostic tools Building-block architecture support, which consists of guidance for how to use AWS offerings, features, and services together

What is the benefit of business support?

Customers with a Business Support plan have access to additional features, including: Use-case guidance to identify AWS offerings, features, and services that can best support your specific needs All AWS Trusted Advisor checks Limited support for third-party software, such as common operating systems and application stack components

AWS Free Tier

Enables you to begin using certain services without having to worry about incurring costs for the specified period.

Your company wants to receive support from an AWS Technical Account Manager (TAM). Which support plan should you choose?

Enterprise

Which support plan has access to a Technical Account Manager (TAM)?

Enterprise Support plan

What is the management account?

Every organization in AWS Organizations has a management account that pays the charges of all the member accounts. For more information about organizations

AWS Lambda pricing

For AWS Lambda, you are charged based on the number of requests for your functions and the time that it takes for them to run. AWS Lambda allows 1 million free requests and up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month. You can save on AWS Lambda costs by signing up for a Compute Savings Plan. A Compute Savings Plan offers lower compute costs in exchange for committing to a consistent amount of usage over a 1-year or 3-year term. This is an example of paying less when you reserve.

Pay for what you use.

For each service, you pay for exactly the amount of resources that you actually use, without requiring long-term contracts or complex licensing.

What is basic support?

Free for all AWS customers. It includes access to whitepapers, documentation, and support communities. With Basic Support, you can also contact AWS for billing questions and service limit increases.

What happens when you have access to the management account?

If you have access to the management account, you can see a combined view of the AWS charges that the member accounts incur. You also can get a cost report for each member account.

AWS Lambda pricing example

If you have used AWS Lambda in multiple AWS Regions, you can view the itemized charges by Region on your bill. In this example, all the AWS Lambda usage occurred in the Northern Virginia Region. The bill lists separate charges for the number of requests for functions and their duration. Both the number of requests and the total duration of requests in this example are under the thresholds in the AWS Free Tier, so the account owner would not have to pay for any AWS Lambda usage in this month.

Example: AWS Budgets Suppose that you have set a budget for Amazon EC2. You want to ensure that your company's usage of Amazon EC2 does not exceed $200 for the month.

In AWS Budgets, you could set a custom budget to notify you when your usage has reached half of this amount ($100). This setting would allow you to receive an alert and decide how you would like to proceed with your continued use of Amazon EC2.

For example, suppose that your company is in the healthcare industry.

In AWS Marketplace, you can review use cases that software helps you to address, such as implementing solutions to protect patient records or using machine learning models to analyze a patient's medical history and predict possible health risks.

What is the benefit of Enterprise Support?

In addition to all the features included in the Basic, Developer, and Business Support plans, customers with an Enterprise Support plan have access to features such as: -Application architecture guidance, which is a consultative relationship to support your company's specific use cases and applications -Infrastructure event management: A short-term engagement with AWS Support that helps your company gain a better understanding of your use cases. This also provides your company with architectural and scaling guidance. -A Technical Account Manager

Suppose that your company is interested in using Amazon EC2. However, you are not yet sure which AWS Region or instance type would be the most cost-efficient for your use case.

In the AWS Pricing Calculator, you can enter details such as the kind of operating system you need, memory requirements, and input/output (I/O) requirements. By using the AWS Pricing Calculator, you can review an estimated comparison of different EC2 instance types across AWS Regions.

For example, suppose that your company is exploring AWS services. You've heard about a few different AWS services. However, you're unsure of how to potentially use them together to build applications that can address your company's needs.

In this scenario, the building-block architecture support that is included with the Developer Support plan could help you to identify opportunities for combining specific services and features.

What does AWS Cost Explorer include?

Includes a default report of the costs and usage for your top five cost-accruing AWS services. You can apply custom filters and groups to analyze your data. For example, you can view resource usage at the hourly level.

What is the benefit of Developer, Business, and Enterprise Support?

Includes all the benefits of Basic Support, in addition to the ability to open an unrestricted number of technical support cases. These three Support plans have pay-by-the-month pricing and require no long-term contracts.

What are the subcategories in the DevOps category?

Includes areas such as Application Development, Monitoring, and Testing.

What does the consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations enable?

It enables you to receive a single bill for all AWS accounts in your organization. By consolidating, you can easily track the combined costs of all the linked accounts in your organization.

AWS Pricing Calculator

Lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS. You can organize your AWS estimates by groups that you define. A group can reflect how your company is organized, such as providing estimates by cost center. When you have created an estimate, you can save it and generate a link to share it with others.

What are the benefits of consolidated billing?

ONE BILL - You get one bill for multiple accounts. EASYTRACKING - You can track the charges across multiple accounts and download the combined cost and usage data. COMBINED USAGE - You can combine the usage across all accounts in the organization to share the volume pricing discounts, Reserved Instance discounts, and Savings Plans. This can result in a lower charge for your project, department, or company than with individual standalone accounts. For more information, see Volume discounts. NO EXTRA FEE - Consolidated billing is offered at no additional cost.

Trials

Short-term free trial offers start from the date you activate a particular service. The length of each trial might vary by number of days or the amount of usage in the service. For example, Amazon Inspector offers a 90-day free trial. Amazon Lightsail (a service that enables you to run virtual private servers) offers 750 free hours of usage over a 30-day period.

Pay less when you reserve.

Some services offer reservation options that provide a significant discount compared to On-Demand Instance pricing. For example, suppose that your company is using Amazon EC2 instances for a workload that needs to run continuously. You might choose to run this workload on Amazon EC2 Instance Savings Plans, because the plan allows you to save up to 72% over the equivalent On-Demand Instance capacity.

Pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more.

Some services offer tiered pricing, so the per-unit cost is incrementally lower with increased usage. For example, the more Amazon S3 storage space you use, the less you pay for it per GB.

Amazon S3 pricing

Storage - You pay for only the storage that you use. You are charged the rate to store objects in your Amazon S3 buckets based on your objects' sizes, storage classes, and how long you have stored each object during the month. Requests and data retrievals - You pay for requests made to your Amazon S3 objects and buckets. For example, suppose that you are storing photo files in Amazon S3 buckets and hosting them on a website. Every time a visitor requests the website that includes these photo files, this counts towards requests you must pay for. Data transfer - There is no cost to transfer data between different Amazon S3 buckets or from Amazon S3 to other services within the same AWS Region. However, you pay for data that you transfer into and out of Amazon S3, with a few exceptions. There is no cost for data transferred into Amazon S3 from the internet or out to Amazon CloudFront. There is also no cost for data transferred out to an Amazon EC2 instance in the same AWS Region as the Amazon S3 bucket. Management and replication - You pay for the storage management features that you have enabled on your account's Amazon S3 buckets. These features include Amazon S3 inventory, analytics, and object tagging.

TRUE OR FALSE? AWS Marketplace offers products in several categories, such as Infrastructure Products, Business Applications, Data Products, and DevOps. Within each category, you can narrow your search by browsing through product listings in subcategories.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE? In general, for pricing, the Developer plan has the lowest cost, the Business plan is in the middle, and the Enterprise plan has the highest cost.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE? AWS and AISPL accounts can't be consolidated together. If your contact address is in India, you can use AWS Organizations to consolidate AISPL accounts within your organization.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE? The member account bills are for informational purpose only. The management account might reallocate the additional volume discounts, Reserved Instance, or Savings Plans discounts that your account receives.

TRUE

The AWS Free Tier includes offers that are available to new AWS customers for a certain period of time following their AWS sign-up date. What is the duration of this period?

The AWS Free Tier consists of three types of offers that allow customers to use AWS services without incurring costs: Always free, 12 months free, and Trials. For 12 months after you first sign up for an AWS account, you can take advantage of offers in the 12 Months Free category. Examples of offers in this category include specific amounts of Amazon S3 Standard Storage, thresholds for monthly hours of Amazon EC2 compute time, and amounts of Amazon CloudFront data transfer out.

Amazon S3 Pricing Example

The AWS account in this example has used Amazon S3 in two Regions: Northern Virginia and Ohio. For each Region, itemized charges are based on the following factors: The number of requests to add or copy objects into a bucket The number of requests to retrieve objects from a bucket The amount of storage space used All the usage for Amazon S3 in this example is under the AWS Free Tier limits, so the account owner would not have to pay for any Amazon S3 usage in this month.

What does a TAM provide?

The TAM is your primary point of contact at AWS. They provide guidance, architectural reviews, and ongoing communication with your company as you plan, deploy, and optimize your applications. TAMs provide expertise across the full range of AWS services. They help you design solutions that efficiently use multiple services together through an integrated approach.

What is another benefit of consolidated billing?

The ability to share bulk discount pricing, Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances across the accounts in your organization. For instance, one account might not have enough monthly usage to qualify for discount pricing. However, when multiple accounts are combined, their aggregated usage may result in a benefit that applies across all accounts in the organization.

How many times does AWS Budgets updates?

The information updates three times a day. This helps you to accurately determine how close your usage is to your budgeted amounts or to the AWS Free Tier limits.

What is the default maximum number of accounts allowed for an organization?

The maximum is 4, but you can contact AWS Support to increase your quota, if needed.

12 Months Free

These offers are free for 12 months following your initial sign-up date to AWS. Examples include specific amounts of Amazon S3 Standard Storage, thresholds for monthly hours of Amazon EC2 compute time, and amounts of Amazon CloudFront data transfer out.

Always Free

These offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers. For example, AWS Lambda allows 1 million free requests and up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month. Amazon DynamoDB allows 25 GB of free storage per month.

What happens when a member account leaves an organization?

When a member account leaves an organization, the member account can no longer access Cost Explorer data that was generated when the account was in the organization. The data isn't deleted, and the management account in the organization can still access the data. If the member account rejoins the organization, the member account can access the data again.

What happens for each listing in AWS Marketplace?

You can access detailed information on pricing options, available support, and reviews from other AWS customers. You can also explore software solutions by industry and use case

What else can you do with AWS Budgets?

You can also set custom alerts when your usage exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) the budgeted amount.

What is the purpose of AWS Budgets?

You can create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations.

What can you review on your monthly bill?

You can review itemized charges incurred by each account. This enables you to have greater transparency into your organization's accounts while still maintaining the convenience of receiving a single monthly bill.

Suppose that your company has the Business Support plan and wants to install a common third-party operating system onto your Amazon EC2 instances.

You could contact AWS Support for assistance with installing, configuring, and troubleshooting the operating system. For advanced topics such as optimizing performance, using custom scripts, or resolving security issues, you may need to contact the third-party software provider directly.

What do you have access to with aws basic support?

You have access to a limited selection of AWS Trusted Advisor checks. Additionally, you can use the AWS Personal Health Dashboard, a tool that provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may affect you.

For example, suppose that you are interested in developing an application that uses several AWS services together

Your TAM could provide insights into how to best use the services together. They achieve this, while aligning with the specific needs that your company is hoping to address through the new application.

What is the purpose of consolidated billing?

to consolidate billing and payment for multiple AWS accounts or multiple Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd (AISPL) accounts.