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| Total Cost of Ownership - the cost of running your workload and associated costs of maintaining your infrastructure |
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| Six Advantages of Cloud Computing |
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1. Trade fixed expense for variable expense
2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
3. Stop guessing capacity
4. Increase speed and agility
5. Stop spending money on maintaining data centers
6. Go global in minutes |
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| Describe fixed vs variable expense |
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when your expenses grow and shrink due to demand, rather than an up-front commitment to expenses
- traditional datacenter storage vs cloud resources and pay-as-you-go models |
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| Define economies of scale and how AWS customer benefit from this |
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| AWS serves thousands of customers, which allows them to buy large volumes of infrastructure at a discounted price. When you consume cloud resources, you benefit from these massive economies of scale. |
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| Define how AWS allows customers to stop guessing capacity |
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Auto-scaling allows your resources to meet the demand and removes the need to guess what that demand will be
Variable expense also means variable demand |
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| How does AWS increase speed and agility? |
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| Customers of AWS get to focus on workloads they're developing and less on maintaining the datacenter |
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| How does AWS allow customers to go global in minutes? |
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| With a few mouse clicks, cloud infrastructure and resources can be created |
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| What two pillars from the Well-Architected Framework relate to budgets? |
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Cost optimization - budgeting
Sustainability - resource consumption and planning |
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| a method of optimizing compute costs. It avoids over-provisioning EC2 and wasting compute |
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| A right-sizing method that provides variable compute. It puts EC2 instances in groups and allows them to start and stop when needed based on demand |
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| good for known, predictable workloads where capacity will be used for 1-3 years. up to 70% discount |
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| Reserve capacity for a particular instance type for a significantly discounted hourly rate |
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| Reserve capacity but retain flexibility on what instance types to use, resulting in a smaller overall discount |
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| Reserve a particular instance type, but only during defined time windows, resulting in a moderate discount |
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| good for workloads that can start and stop intermittently. Up to 90% discount |
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| AWS service that uses machine learning to analyze your CloudWatch logs and provides right-sizing recommendations for your EC2 instances |
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| What are two on-demand resources for AWS? |
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| AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. these on-demand resources do not incur a cost when there is no demand. Fargate is for containerized workloads only. Lambad is ideal for serverless or event-driven workloads |
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| What service is the king of data storage? |
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| What are the storage class options when putting an object in an S3 bucket? |
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| S3 Standard, S3 Standard-IA, S3 One Zone-IA, S3 Express One Zone, and archival options: Glacier Flexible Retrieval, Glacier Deep Archive, Glacier Instant Retrieval |
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| Storage service that is used to create per object policies that move objects from one storage class to another via defined transition actions and expiration actions. This drives down storage costs by automatically moving objects to cheaper storage options when you know their usage. |
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Storage service to use when you do NOT know the transition actions or expiration actions of an object.
Constantly analyzes the access patterns of your objects and moves those objects to different storage patterns based on that usage. |
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| Examines all the S3 buckets across your AWS Organization and gives you recommendations on storage classes to optimize your storage types. |
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| Data from the internet to AWS |
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| data traffic from AWS to the internet. Varies in cost by service. 100GB in basic tier is free. Note: outbound traffic to the public internet is the most expensive |
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| Inter-Region data transfer |
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| Region to region data transfer. Billed per GB depending on the origin and destination. Second most expensive behind Outbound data transfer |
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| Data transfer cost within one Region |
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| Varies by service but can in some cases be free. Transferring data across AZs results in a cost |
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| The cheapest option for data transfer in AWS |
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| data transfer within an AZ |
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| The farther the data must travel... |
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| The more expensive the data transfer |
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| Used to assess potential cloud costs |
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| Tool for customizing budgets and receiving SNS alerts when you exceed your thresholds. You can also define automated cost saving responses and create reports |
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| A visual dashboard where you can gain insights on your AWS usage and projected spend. Filter costs by attributes such as service or region. Create custom reports and drill down for detailed analysis |
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| Cost and Usage Reports (CURs) |
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| Provide the MOST DETAILED data available on COSTS and USAGE HISTORY for AWS Services. Generate reports, then store them in S3 and then analyze them using BI tools to gain insights on per-resource cost data. |
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| How do you create a budget for AWS? |
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| You can make a budget and receive notifications by accessing the AWS console and navigating to the Billing and Cost dashboard and going to the budget and planning tab. |
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| AWS service that allows you to create billing groups by account within your AWS Organization and generate reports. Distribute bulk discounts across billing groups and set custom pricing rates. This is good when you're using multiple cost centers. |
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| What service provides consolidated billing across multiple accounts? |
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| How can you obtain cost clarity in multi-account environments? |
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| First, use AWS Organizations to create a parent level. Then use Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and CURs to monitor costs across the accounts at the child level. |
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| What AWS service can be used to monitor the cost of resource groups? |
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| Support plans are described as the ability to open tickets and receive advice from AWS |
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| What is the first level of support plan that allows for phone and chat support? |
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| What is the first level of support plan that gives support for billing issues? |
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| What level of support plan offers the full set of Trusted Advisor checks? |
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| Can you open tickets in the basic support plan? |
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| No, you CANNOT open tickets or receive advise based on what you're working on at this tier |
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| What is the first level of support plan that gives you guidance from AWS for what you're working on? |
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| What is the support plan that gives you CONTEXTUAL guidance within 1-24 hours? |
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| What is the support plan that provides GENERAL guidance within 12-24 hours? |
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| What is the first level of support plan that gives you access to Trust Advisor free checks, the AWS Health Dashboard, and access to customer service and documentation? |
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