Billing, Pricing & Support Models Flashcards
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An organization wants to apply consistent cost allocation tags across all AWS accounts for chargeback reporting. Which feature of AWS Organizations helps with this?
Answer: Tag Policies
Tag Policies in AWS Organizations allow you to define and enforce standardized tagging rules across all accounts, making cost allocation reports more consistent.
Which AWS Free Tier type provides always-free access to certain AWS services with monthly usage limits?
Answer: Always Free
Always Free offerings like AWS Lambda (1M requests/month) and DynamoDB (25GB) remain free indefinitely and do not expire after 12 months.
What is the key difference between Convertible Reserved Instances and Standard Reserved Instances?
Answer: Convertible RIs can be exchanged for different RI attributes during the term
Convertible RIs allow you to exchange for different instance families, OS types, or tenancies during the commitment period, offering flexibility at a slightly lower discount than Standard RIs.
Which metric does AWS use to charge for Amazon S3 storage?
Answer: Total storage used per gigabyte per month
Amazon S3 charges based on the amount of data stored (GB per month), along with additional charges for requests, data retrieval, and data transfer out.
A company needs 24/7 phone support and access to Infrastructure Event Management (IEM). Which AWS Support plan includes IEM as a standard feature?
Answer: Enterprise
Infrastructure Event Management is included in the Enterprise Support plan, while it is available as a paid add-on for Business plan customers.
Which AWS billing feature lets you set custom actions — such as stopping EC2 instances — automatically when a budget threshold is reached?
Answer: AWS Budgets Actions
AWS Budgets Actions allows you to define automated responses like applying IAM policies or stopping EC2/RDS instances when a cost or usage budget threshold is exceeded.
Which AWS service uses machine learning to automatically detect unusual spending patterns and alerts you to potential cost anomalies?
Answer: AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection uses ML to continuously monitor your spending, learn your baseline usage patterns, and alert you when anomalous charges are detected.