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AWS Cloud Practitioner - 5

Cost

Subhi Dweik. Chapter Eindhoven '22 X Rockademy
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Index

  • Understanding Pricing
  • Billing & Budgets
  • Governance services
  • Assorted
  • Support plans
  • Questions
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Understanding Pricing

  • Egress is universal
  • Pricing dimension differs per service
  • People also cost money
  • There's a pricing calculator
  • There are Free tier services
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Billing & Budgets

  • "Billing" shows you your usage, up to date to roughly 4 hours ago
  • Cost explorer allows you to dig deeper into costs
  • Consolidated billing exists for multiple accounts
  • You can set billing alerts for both forecasted and actual use
  • You can use "Cost Allocation Tags" to view costs per thing you're interested in
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Governance services

  • Control tower allows centralized governance management and account vending
  • Systems manager is the "everything and the kitchen sink" service for VM/Fleet management
    • Instance connect for SSH-key less SSH
    • State manager for compliance insights
    • Patch manager for patching
    • and more
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Governance services continued

  • Trusted advisor can tell you about inefficiencies in your cloud environment
  • License manager manages licenses for enterprisey stuff (SAP/Oracle). On-prem AND AWS
  • ACM manages certficicates for you. Includes rotation.
    • Will NOT hand you the private key to your cert
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Assorted

  • AWS Marketplace allows you to buy prebuilt virtual machines. Includes licenses
  • Aws Partner Network is a network of "trusted" partners that AWS recommends
  • Accounts are created with default service quotas, as lot of these can be increased
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Support plans

  • Basic - Account and billing questions, service limit increases
  • Developer - Allows technical support. Email only. Gives you a single point of contact. <24h General guidance. <12 hours for outages
  • Business - Email/Phone/Chat access. <24h general. <12h impairement. <4h Production impairements. <1h production full outage. Also, full TA checks.
  • Enterprise - TAM. Architecture advice. Times same as above + <15min for business critical outages.
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Questions?