Pricing, Billing, and Governance
AWS Pricing
Pricing
Compute: Hourly from launch to termination
Storage: The data you store in the cloud
Outbound data transfer: Data in flight moving between systems
Free Offer Types
12 months free: 12 months free usage following your initial sign-up date to AWS
Always free: Offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers
Trials: Short-term free trials staring from the date you activate a particular service
EC2 Pricing
On-Demand: You pay by the hour or by the second without pre-paying
Saving Plan: Commit to compute usage measured per hour for 1- or 3-year term
Reserved Instances: Commit to use for 1 or 3 years; pay regardless of usage
Spot Instances: Instances only launch if spare capacity is available
Dedicated Hosts: An entire physical server just for you
Lambda Pricing
Number of requests: Include test invokes from the console
Code execution time: From execution start, in response to events, to stop
Always free: 1 million requests per month
S3 Pricing
Storage class: Various storage classes
Storage: Number and size of objects
Data transfer: Data transferred out of S3 Region
Request and data retrieval: Request made for data and amount of requests
RDS Pricing
Running clock hours
Type of database
Storage
Purchase type
Database count
API requests
Deployment type
Data transfer
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
TCO is a financial estimate that helps you underestand both the direct and indirect costs of AWS.
Application Discovery Service
Application Discovery Service helps you plan migration projects to the AWS Cloud.
Plan migration projects
Used to estimate TCO
Works with other services to migrate servers
A Few Ways to Reduce Your TCO Using AWS
Minimize capital expenditures: AWS helps you minimize large capital expenditures, which reduces your TCO.
Utilize Reserved Instances: AWS provides Reserved Instances to help you lock in saving and reduce your TCO.
Right size your resources: AWS helps you match the provisioning of resources to your usage needs to reduce your TCO.
AWS Price List API
The Price List API allows you to query the price of AWS services.
Query using JSON or HTML
Receive price alerts when prices change
Billing Services
Budgets
Budgets allow you to set a custom budget that alerts you when your costs or usage exceed your budgeted amount.
Improve planning and cost control
Cost, usage, and reservation budgets
Budget alerts
Budget Types
Cost Budgets: Plan how much you want to spend on a service.
Usage Budgets: Plan how much you want to use on one or more services.
Reservation Budgets: Set RIs or Saving Plans utilization or coverage targets.
Budgets in the Real World
Monitor Free Tier usage so you don’t incur unwanted costs: You can monitor Free Tier usage to ensure you don’t accidentally exceed Free Tier limits and incur unwanted costs. You can set up an alert notification for when your account is approaching a particular dollar amount.
Cost and Usage Report
The Cost and Usage Report contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data.
A downloadable detailed and comprehensive report
List usage for each service category
Aggregate usage data on a daily, hourly, or monthly level
Cost and Usage Report in the Real World
View the most granular data about your AWS bill: The Cost and Usage Report gives you the ability to do a deep dive into your AWS cost and usage data. Once set up, you can download the report using the Amazon S3 console.
Cost Explorer
Cost Explorer allows you to visualize and forecast your costs and usage over time.
Visualize costs over time
View the past 12 months
Forecast for up to 12 months
Cost Explorer in the Real World
Analyze your EC2 usage over the past 7, 30, or 60 days: If you considering your options for Saving Plans, AWS Cost Explorer can analyze your EC2 usage over the past 7, 30, or 60 days.
Cost Allocation Tags
Tags are useful for tracking spending.
Tags allow you to label resources using a key and value pair.
Tags allow you to track costs via the cost allocation report.
Governance Services
Organizations
Organizations allow you to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts under one umbrella.
Group multiple accounts
Single payment for all accounts
Automate account creation
Allocate resources and apply policies across accounts
What are the benefits of Organizations?
Consolidated Billing: The advantage of consolidated billing is that you receive one bill for multiple accounts.
Cost Saving: You’ll receive volume discounts since usage is combined across accounts.
Account Governance: You have a quick and automated way to create accounts or invite existing accounts.
Organizations in the Real World
Reduce costs by sharing resources across accounts: Organizations allow you to save money using Reserved Instance (RI) sharing. RI sharing allows all accounts in the organization to receive the hourly cost-benefit of RIs purchased by any other account. You can always turn off RI sharing using the master payer (or root) organization.
Control Tower
Control Tower helps you ensure your accounts conform to company-wise policies.
Helps set up new accounts using a multi-account strategy
Works directly with AWS Organizations
Enforce the best use of services across accounts
Provides a dashboard to manage accounts
Control Tower in the Real World
Disallow public write access to all S3 buckets across your accounts: Control Tower allows you to govern your multi-account environment by enabling cross-account security audits or preventing or detecting security issues through mandatory or optional guardrails.
Systems Manager
Systems Manager gives you visibility and control over your AWS resources.
Automate operational tasks on your resources
Group resources and take action
Patch and run commands on multiple EC2 instances or manage RDS instances
Systems Manager in the Real World
Deploy operating system and software patches automatically across a large group of instances: Systems Manager allows you to auto-patch software running on EC2 instances according to a schedule.
Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.
Checks your account and makes recommendations
Helps you see service limits
Helps you understand best practices
A few popular recommendations made by Trusted Advisor
Checks for unrestricted access for specific ports on EC2 instances (free)
Checks S3 buckets permissions to determine if public access (free)
Checks for MFA on root account (free)
Checks IAM password policy (non-free, Enterprise or Business Support required)
Checks for RDS public snapshots (free)
Checks for service usage greater than 80% over service limit (non-free, Enterprise or Business Support required)
Checks for exposed access keys (non-free, Enterprise or Business Support required)
Checks for CloudFront content delivery optimization (non-free, Enterprise or Business Support required)
Trusted Advisor in the Real World
Check read and write capacity service limits for DynamoDB: Trusted Advisor helps reduce your overall costs by monitoring service limits.
License Manager
License Manager helps you manage software licenses.
Manage on-premises and AWS licenses
Track licenses for Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and more
Certificate Manager
Certificate Manager helps you provision and manage SSL/TLS certificates.
Provides public and private certificates for free
Integrates with Elastic Load Balancing, API Gateways, and more
Management Services
Managed Services
Managed Services helps you efficiently operate your AWS infrastructure.
Augments your internal staff
Provides ongoing management of your infrastructure
Reduces operational risks and overhead
Managed Services in the Real World
Develop application-specific health monitoring using CloudWatch: Managed Services can increase your operational efficiency by helping you develop application-specific health monitoring using CloudWatch.
Professional Services
Professional Services helps enterprise customers move to a cloud-based operating model.
Proposes solutions
Architects solutions
Implements solutions
Professional Services in the Real World
Get helps with evaluating an application for migration to the cloud: You can quickly move on-premises applications to the cloud using AWS Professional Services.
AWS Partner Network
APN is a global community of approved partners that offer software solutions and consulting services for AWS.
Offers technology partners that provide software solutions
Provides consulting partners that offer professional services
Find approved vendors with deep AWS expertise
APN in the Real World
You need help designing and building a new application: If your team lacks the technical expertise to build and deploy cloud applications, the APN cloud helps you get up and running quickly.
Marketplace
Marketplace is a digital catalog or prebuilt solutions you can purchase or license. You may also sell your own solutions to others via Marketplace.
Buy third-party software
Sell solutions to AWS customers
Search the catalog of software listings and install them with the click of a button
Marketplace in the Real World
Try out an application before making a long-term commitment: Some products listed on Marketplace offer free trials. The free trial allows you to try the software before you buy it.
Personal Health Dashboard
Personal Health Dashboard alerts you to events that might impact your AWS environment.
Provides troubleshooting guidance
Feedback tailored to your specific environment
Support Plans
There are 4 support plans.
Basic: Basic support is included for free for all AWS accounts.
Developer: Developer support starts at $29 a month and is recommended for testing and development.
Business: Business support starts at $100 a month and is recommended for production workloads.
Enterprise: Enterprise support starts at $15,000 a month and is recommended for business or mission-critical production workloads.
Support Case Types
There are 3 types of support cases you can open with AWS Support.
Account and billing: Account-related and billing cases can be opened by customers.
Service limit increases: Default service quota (or limit) increases can be opened by all customers.
Technical support: Technical support cases can only be opened by customers on the Developer, Business, or Enterprise plans.
AWS Support does not allow cases for code development, debugging custom software, or performing system administration tasks.
Basic Support Plan
Basic Support is included for free for all AWS accounts.
Access to account and billing support cases
Access to service limit increases
Customer Services: 24/7 access via email only
Access to discussion forums
Developer Support Plan
Developer Support starts at $29 a month and is recommended for testing and development.
Access to account and billing support cases
Access to service limit increases
Access to technical support
Allowed to 1 primary contact
Access to open unlimited support cases
Cloud Support Associate: Business-hours access via email only
Response Times: <24 hours general guidance and <12 hours system impaired
Business Support Plan
Business Support starts at $100 a month and is recommended for production workloads.
Access to account and billing support cases
Access to service limit increases
Access to technical support
Allowed unlimited contact
Access to open unlimited support cases
Access to a Full Set of Trusted Advisor Checks
Cloud Support Engineers: 24/7 access via email, phone, or chat
Response Times: <24 hours general guidance, <4 hours production system impaired, <12 system impaired, < 1-hour production system down
Enterprise Support Plan
Enterprise Support starts at $15,000 a month and is recommended for business or mission-critical production workloads.
Access to account and billing support cases
Access to service limit increases
Access to technical support
Allowed unlimited contact
Access to open unlimited support cases
Access to Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Access to Concierge Support Team
Access to Infrastructure Event Manager
Access to a Full Set of Trusted Advisor Checks
Cloud Support Engineers: 24/7 access via email, phone, or chat
Response Times: <24 hours general guidance, <4 hours production system impaired, <12 system impaired, < 1-hour production system down, <15 minutes business-critical system down
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