AWS Billing and Pricing Flashcards
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Which AWS feature allows you to consolidate billing across multiple AWS accounts and potentially receive volume discounts?
Answer: AWS Organizations consolidated billing
AWS Organizations consolidated billing lets you combine usage across all accounts to qualify for volume pricing tiers and view all charges in a single bill.
What is the benefit of using resource tags in AWS for cost management?
Answer: Tags enable cost allocation so you can track spending by project, team, or environment
Resource tags are key-value pairs that allow you to categorize AWS resources and then view cost allocation reports broken down by tag.
Which AWS pricing concept means that the more you use a service, the lower the per-unit cost becomes?
Answer: Volume-based tiered pricing
Many AWS services use tiered pricing where unit costs decrease as usage volume increases, rewarding higher-volume customers.
What is data transfer pricing for traffic moving WITHIN the same AWS Availability Zone?
Answer: Free
Data transfer between EC2 instances within the same Availability Zone using private IP addresses is free.
Which AWS service provides recommendations to help reduce costs, including identifying idle EC2 instances and underutilized resources?
Answer: AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations across cost optimization, security, performance, and fault tolerance.
Which of the following is NOT a benefit of moving to the AWS Cloud from an on-premises data center?
Answer: Maintaining full physical access to servers
In AWS, you do not have physical access to the underlying servers — this is AWS's responsibility, not a benefit customers receive.