AWS Billing

Question 1

What is the Total Cost of Ownership?

Answer 1

The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate that helps you understand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS.

Question 2

What affects the cost of S3?

Answer 2

• Storage Class of Objects
• Number and Size of Objects
• Data Transferred Out of Region
• Number of Requests for Data

Question 3

What affects the cost of RDS?

Answer 3

• Running Hours
• Type of Database
• Amount of Data Stored
• Number of API Requests/Calls
• Type of Deployment
• Outbound Data Transfers

Question 4

What affects the cost of Lambda?

Answer 4

• Number of Requests

- Time Spent Executing Code

Question 5

What are the Three Fundamental Drivers of Cost?

Answer 5

• Compute
• Storage
• Outbound Data Transfers

Question 6

What are the Three Free Offer Types on AWS?

Answer 6

• Always Free
• 12 Month Trial from Account Creation
• Trial from Time of Service Activation

Question 7

What are the five ways to pay for an EC2 instance?

Answer 7

• On-Demand Instances
• Savings Plan
• Reserved Instances
• Spot Instances
• Dedicated Hosts