What is the Billing and Pricing Domain?
- Compare and contrast various pricing models for AWS
- Recognize the various account structures in relation to AWS billing and pricing
- Identify resources available for billing support
AWS Support plans
- Four Plans
- Monthly fees ranging from free, to starting at 15k a month.
- Support plan types depend on organizational needs
What are the main charge types?
- Compute
- Storage
- Data Out
Where can an admin review their AWS usage charges?
- Log into the AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboard to estimate and plan your AWS costs
- Receive alerts when you’re nearing usage thresholds which could mean additional costs.
What are benefits of Pay-as-you-go model of cloud computing?
- No large upfront costs
- Billed only for the resources consumed
- Easily scale resources up or down to suit business needs.
What are benefits of Pay-as-you-go model of cloud computing?
- No large upfront costs
- Billed only for the resources consumed
- Easily scale resources up or down to suit business needs.
Explain fess in Compute cost method?
Pay hourly from the time launched, to termination
Ex: EC2 virtual servers created
Explain fees under the Storage cost method
Pay per GB of storage used
Ex: S3 (Storage service) - Upload photos into an app and pay for the storage used
Explain Outbound Data Transfer
Pay to transfer data out of AWS
Usually no charge for transfers into AWS or transfers between other AWS services within the same region.
How can a multi-account org save money on billing?
Consolidate the account for fees
How can a user estimate their costs?
- TCO Calculator
- Pay only when your business requires it
- AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate cloud architecture your trying to build
- Cost Explorer, review and analyze your forecasted usage is
What type of tiers are available?
- Free Tier
- Free for 12 Months (If going over specific limitations, you will be charged as normal, even within the free 12 months)
- Trials
What are the type of support plans?
- Does not include usage fees!
- Basic (Free)
- No tech support, but gains access to AWS community forums
- Seven Core Trusted Advisor Checks
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard
- Developer (29$ a month up to 3% of AWS use cost whichever is larger)
- Good for organizations experimenting with the platform with more critical needs than someone exploring under the free plan.
- One support contact to submit requests, unlimited number of cases, email responses, 12 - 24 hours
- Business (100$ a month or 3-10% of monthly AWS usage bill)
- Unlimited support contacts
- Access AWS Support API for case automation
- Retrieve detailed information about support operations and data types in json format.
- Full sweet of AWS Trusted Advisor Checks
- API access to TAC
- Access to infrastructure event management (extra fees)
- Third party application integration support
- SLA is 24/7 support via phone email and chat
- One hour response time for urgent support critical issues.
- Enterprise (Higher, 15k per month or 3 to 10% of monthly AWS usage bill)
- Good for operations with mission critical use of AWS services
- 24/7 tech support via email, chat and phone with 15 min SLA for critical support cases
- Unlimited users, unlimited number of cases
- TAC support, TAC API access, Third party software support
- TAM and support concierge
- Infrastructure event management complimentary under the ENT
- Well Architected Reviews
- Architecture support
- Operations support
- Self-paced training labs
