The last of the four domains in the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam (AWS CLF-C02) is “Billing, Pricing, and Support.” This domain makes up 12% of the scored content.
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Billing, Pricing, and Support
In this domain, you will learn about the way AWS prices their services, different ways your resources are billed, and how to access support when necessary.
4.1: Compare AWS pricing models
Learn about the fundamental ways AWS charges for your resource usage:
- Compute
- Storage
- Data transfer
Learn about AWS Pricing:
- AWS Pricing Page: https://aws.amazon.com/pricing
- Whitepaper: “How AWS Pricing Works”
Compute Resource Pricing Models:
- Pay as you go (on-demand instances)
- Save when you commit (reserved instances)
- Save when you commit 2 (savings plans)
- Take advantage of unutilized AWS capacity (spot instances)
- Save by using your own licenses and utilize dedicated hardware (dedicated hosts)
- Run Amazon EC2 instances on dedicated hardware (dedicated instances)
- Reserve compute capacity in advance (capacity reservations)
- Pay less by using more
4.2: Understand resources for billing, budget, and cost management
Learn about the billing, budget, and cost management resources:
- AWS Budgets
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Billing Conductor
- AWS Pricing Calculator
Tools to help larger organizations manage multiple AWS accounts and their billing:
- Consolidated Billing
- AWS Organizations
- AWS cost allocation tags
- Generate billing reports with AWS Cost and Usage Report (AWS CUR) by utilizing AWS cost allocation tags
- More information about AWS Cost management resources: here
4.3: Identify AWS technical resources and AWS Support options
AWS Support Plans (source)
- Basic Support Plan (free): for testing out/experimenting with AWS; great for AWS Free Tier
- Developer Support Plan (starts at $29): for testing/experimenting with AWS
- Business Support Plan (starts at $100): minimum recommendation for production workloads in AWS
- Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan (starts at $5,500): for production and/or business critical workloads in AWS
- Enterprise Support Plan (starts at ($15,000): business and/or mission critical workloads in AWS… and A LOT of it
Manage and monitor environments for cost optimization:
- Trusted Advisor
- AWS Health Dashboard
- AWS Health API
Official AWS resources
- AWS Whitepapers
- AWS Blog
- AWS Documentation
- AWS re:Post
- AWS Knowledge Center
- AWS Partner Networks
- AWS Marketplace
- AWS Support Plans
- AWS Trust and Safety Team
- AWS Support Center
- AWS Support Teams: AWS Professional Services, AWS Solutions Architects
Go back to the AWS CLF-C02 Exam Guide
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