Module 8: Pricing and Support

Question 1

What are the 3 AWS Free Tier categories?

Answer 1

1. Always Free
2. 12 Months Free
3. Trials

Question 2

What are the 3 AWS Pricing Concepts?

Answer 2

1. Pay as you go - Pay only for the resources you use
2. Pay less when you reserve - Reduce costs by reserving capacity
3. Pay less with volume-based discounts - Receive savings through volume-based discounts as your usage increases

Question 3

What is the AWS Pricing Calculator?

Answer 3

The AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS.

Question 4

What are the 4 Amazon S3 Pricing Cost Components?

Answer 4

1. Storage
2. Requests and data retrievals
3. Data transfer
4. Management and Replication

Question 5

What does the Consolidated Billing feature do in AWS Organizations?

Answer 5

The consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations allows you to receive a single bill for all AWS accounts in your organization. By consolidating, you can track the combined costs of all the linked accounts in your organization.

Question 6

What is AWS Budgets?

Answer 6

AWS Budgets is a service that creates budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations.

Question 7

What is AWS Cost Explorer?

Answer 7

AWS Cost Explorer is a tool that you can use to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

Question 8

What are the 4 AWS Support Plans?

Answer 8

1. Basic - free to all AWS Customers, includes technical papers, documentation and support communities
2. Developer - Lowest cost, includes best practise guidance, client side diagnostic tools, etc.
3. Business - Medium cost, includes use case guidance for AWS Offerings and all AWS Trusted Advisor checks
4. Enterprise - Highest cost, includes Application architecture guidance and a Technical Account Manager

Question 9

What is a Technical Account Manager?

Answer 9

If you have Enterprise Support, a Technical Account Manager 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

Question 10

What is the AWS Marketplace?

Answer 10

AWS Marketplace is 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.

Question 11

What are the 8 AWS Marketplace Categories?

Answer 11

1. Business Applications
2. Data and Analytics
3. DevOps
4. Infrastructure Software
5. Internet of Things (IoT)
6. Machine Learning
7. Migration
8. Security