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AWS - Pricing
- AWS - Pricing
Free services & free tier in AWS
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Free services
- IAM
- VPC
- Consolidated Billing
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You do pay for the resources created
- Elastic Beanstalk
- CloudFormation
- Auto Scaling Groups
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AWS Free Tier- allows to use AWS resources at no cost for the first 12 months of signup or free usage up to a certain montly limit forever.
- EC2 t2.micro instance for a year
- S3, EBS, AWS Data transfe
- ELB
Pricing Models in AWS
- AWS has 4 pricing models:
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Pay as you go:
- pay for what you use, remain agile, responsive, meet scale demands
- Save when you reserve:
- minimize risks, predictably manage budgets, comply with long-terms requirements
- Reservations are available for
- EC2 Reserved Instances
- DynamoDB Reserved Capacity
- ElastiCache Reserved Nodes
- RDS Reserved Instance
- Redshift Reserved Nodes
- Pay less by using more:
- volume-based discounts
- Pay less as AWS grows
Compute Pricing - EC2
- Only charged for what you use
- Number of instances
- Instance configuration:
- Physical capacity
- Region
- OS and software
- Instance type
- Instance size
- ELB running time and amount of data processed
- Detailed monitoring
- On-demand instances:
- Minimum of 60s
- Pay per second (Linux/Windows) or per hour (other)
- Reserved instances:
- Up to 75% discount compared to On-demand on hourly rate
- 1- or 3-years commitment
- All upfront, partial upfront, no upfront
- Spot instances:
- Up to 90% discount compared to On-demand on hourly rate
- Bid for unused capacity
- Dedicated Host:
- On-demand
- Reservation for 1 year or 3 years commitment
- Savings plans as an alternative to save on sustained usage
Compute Pricing – Lambda & ECS
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Lambda:
- Pay per call
- Pay per duration
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ECS:
- EC2 Launch Type Model: No additional fees, you pay for AWS resources stored and created in your application
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Fargate:
- Fargate Launch Type Model: Pay for vCPU and memory resources allocated to your applications in your containers
Storage Pricing – S3
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Storage class:
- S3 Standard,
- S3 Infrequent Access,
- S3 One-Zone IA,
- S3 Intelligent Tiering,
- S3 Glacier,
- and S3 Glacier Deep Archive
- Number and size of objects: Price can be tiered (based on volume)
- Number and type of requests
- Data transfer OUT of the S3 region
- S3 Transfer Acceleration
- Lifecycle transitions
- Similar service: EFS (pay per use, has infrequent access & lifecycle rules)
Storage Pricing - EBS
- Volume type (based on performance)
- Storage volume in GB per month provisionned
- IOPS:
- General Purpose SSD: Included
- Provisioned IOPS SSD: Provisionned amount in IOPS
- Magnetic: Number of requests
- Snapshots:
- Added data cost per GB per month
- Data transfer:
- Outbound data transfer are tiered for volume discounts
- Inbound is free
Database Pricing - RDS
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Per hour billing
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Database characteristics:
- Engine
- Size
- Memory class
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Purchase type:
- On-demand
- Reserved instances (1 or 3 years) with required up-front
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Backup Storage: There is no additional charge for backup storage up to 100% of your total database storage for a region.
- Additional storage (per GB per month)
- Number of input and output requests per month
- Deployment type (storage and I/O are variable):
- Single AZ
- Multiple AZs
- Data transfer:
- Outbound data transfer are tiered for volume discounts
- Inbound is free
Content Delivery – CloudFront
- Pricing is different across different geographic regions
- Aggregated for each edge location, then applied to your bill
- Data Transfer Out (volume discount)
- Number of HTTP/HTTPS requests
Networking Costs
- Use Private IP instead of Public IP for good savings and better network performance
- Use same AZ for maximum savings (at the cost of high availability)
Savings Plan - commitments
- Commit a certain $ amount per hour for 1 or 3 years
- Easiest way to setup long-term commitments on AWS
EC2 Savings Plan- Commit families- Up to 72% discount compared to On-Demand
- Commit to usage of individual instance families in a region (e.g. C5 or M5)
- Regardless of AZ, size (m5.xl to m5.4xl), OS (Linux/Windows) or tenancy
- All upfront, partial upfront, no upfront
Compute Savings Plan- Regardless- Up to 66% discount compared to On-Demand
- Regardless of Family, Region, size, OS, tenancy, compute options
- Compute Options: EC2, Fargate, Lambda
Machine Learning Savings Plan: SageMaker…- Setup from the
AWS Cost Explorerconsole
AWS Pricing API - api, SNS
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User can programmatically access pricing information to ge the lastest price offering for services.
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Two version of API:
- Query API: the Pricing Service API via JSON
- Batch API: the Price List API via HTML
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Can subscribe to
Simple Notification Service (SNS)to get alerts when prices for the services change.
Support Plans Pricing
- Available for root user and IM user
- Changing of the support only for root user.
Basic Support Plan - Free
- Customer Service & Communities
- 24x7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers, and support forums.
- AWS Trusted Advisor
- Access to the 7 core Trusted Advisor checks and guidance to provision your resources following best practices to increase performance and improve security.
- AWS Personal Health Dashboard
- A personalized view of the health of AWS services, and alerts when your resources are impacted.
Developer Support Plan
- All Basic Support Plan +
- Business hours email access to
Cloud Support Associates - Unlimited cases / 1 primary contact
- Case severity / response times:
- General guidance: < 24 business hours
- System impaired: < 12 business hours
Business Support Plan (24/7)
- Intended to be used if you have production workloads
- Trusted Advisor
- Full set of checks + API access
- 24x7 phone, email, and chat access to
Cloud Support Engineers - Unlimited cases / unlimited contacts
- Access to
Infrastructure Event Managementfor additional fee. - Case severity / response times:
- General guidance: < 24 business hours
- System impaired: < 12 business hours
- Production system impaired: < 4 hours
- Production system down: < 1 hour
Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan (24/7)
- Intended to be used if you have production or business critical workloads
- All of Business Support Plan +
- Access to a pool of
Technical Account Managers (TAM) - Concierge Support Team (for billing and account best practices)
- Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews
- Case severity / response times:
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- Production system impaired: < 4 hours
- Production system down: < 1 hour
- Business-critical system down: < 30 minutes
Enterprise Support Plan (24/7)
- Intended to be used if you have mission critical workloads
- All of Business Support Plan +
- Access to a designated
Technical Account Manager (TAM) - Concierge Support Team (for billing and account best practices)
- Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews
- Case severity / response times:
- …
- Production system impaired: < 4 hours
- Production system down: < 1 hour
- Business-critical system down: < 15 minutes
Trusted Advisor - account assessment 必背
- guidance to help you provision your resources
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No need to install anything– high level AWS account assessment
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Analyze your AWS accounts and provides recommendation on 5 categories
- Cost optimization
- Performance
- Security
- Fault tolerance
- Service limits
Trusted Advisor – Support Plans 必背
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7 CORE CHECKS: Basic & Developer Support plan
- IAM Use (one IAM user minimum)
- Security Groups – Specific Ports Unrestricted
- MFA on Root Account
- S3 Bucket Permissions
- EBS Public Snapshots
- RDS Public Snapshots
- Service Limits
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FULL CHECKS: Business & Enterprise Support plan
- Full Checks available on the 5 categories
- Ability to set CloudWatch alarms when reaching limits
- Programmatic Access using AWS Support API
Technical Account Manager (TAM) - Enterprise Support
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Technical Account Manager (TAM)- provides both procative guidance and reactive support to help user succeed with AWS journey.
