# Day 23: Exploring AWS: Billing & Cost

### **AWS Free Services**

* **EC2 Web Server** - 750 hours per month of t2.micro instance for 1 year.
    
* **RDS Database** - 750 hours per month of t2.db.micro instance (MySQL or Postgres) for 1 year.
    
* **ELB Load Balancer** - 750 hours per month for 1 year.
    
* **Amazon CloudFront** - 50 GB data transfer out total for 1 year.
    
* **Amazon Connect** - 90 minutes of call time per month for 1 year.
    
* **Amazon ElastiCache** - 750 hours per month of cache.t3.micro instance for 1 year.
    
* **Amazon Elasticsearch Service** - 750 hours per month for 1 year.
    
* **PinPoint Campaign/Marketing Emails** - 5,000 targeted users per month for 1 year.
    
* **SES Emails** - 62,000 emails sent per month forever.
    
* **AWS CodePipeline** - 1 pipeline free.
    
* **AWS CodeBuild** - 100 build minutes per month forever.
    
* **AWS Lambda** - 1 million requests and 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month.
    

### **AWS Support Plan**

| Feature | Basic | Developer | Business | Enterprise |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cost | Free | $29/month or 3% of monthly usage (whichever is greater) | $100/month or 10% of monthly usage (first $0-$10K, scales down for higher usage) | $15,000/month or 10% of monthly usage (first $0-$150K, scales down for higher usage) |
| Customer Service | 24/7 access | 24/7 access | 24/7 access | 24/7 access |
| Technical Support | None | Business hours email access | 24/7 email, chat, and phone access | 24/7 access to senior cloud support engineers |
| Response Times | N/A | General guidance: < 24 hours | General guidance: < 24 hours | General guidance: < 24 hours |
|  |  | System impaired: < 12 hours | System impaired: < 4 hours | System impaired: < 1 hour |
|  |  |  | Production system down: < 1 hour | Production system down: < 15 minutes |
| Trusted Advisor | Basic checks | Core security and performance checks | Full set of checks | Full set of checks |
| Technical Account Manager (TAM) | No | No | No | Yes |
| Support API | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| IAM Best Practices | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Infrastructure Event Management | No | No | Limited | Comprehensive |
| AWS Concierge Support | No | No | No | Yes |
| Proactive Services | No | No | No | Yes |
| Well-Architected Reviews | No | No | No | Yes |
| Personal Health Dashboard | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Example of cost | $0USD | Monthly spend is $500 and 3%of 500= $15USD but you have to pay minimum$29 | Monthly spend is $1000 and 10% of 1000= $100USD , Monthly spend is $12000 and 10% of $10000 =$1000 and for rest 2000 it is 7% = $140 so total is $1140USD | SMAE AS A BUSINESS |

### **Technical Account Manager (TAM)**

1. ### **Solution Building** - Offer technical guidance and advocate for customer needs.
    
2. **Operational Health** - Ensure environments are healthy, cost-efficient, and less complex.
    
3. **Customer Relationship** - Develop trust by understanding business and technical challenges.
    
4. **Technical Discussions** - Drive discussions on incidents, trade-offs, and risk management.
    
5. **Proactive Value** - Identify opportunities for customers to gain additional AWS value.
    

### **AWS Marketplace**

1. **Curated Catalogue** - Browse thousands of software listings from independent vendors.
    
2. **Flexible Pricing** - Products may be free or have associated charges added to your AWS bill.
    
3. **Sales Channel** - Sell solutions to other AWS customers.
    
4. **Product Formats** - Includes AMIs, CloudFormation templates, SaaS offerings, and Web ACLs.
    
5. **Consulting Partners** - Partner with AWS to provide software solutions.
    

### **Consolidated Billing**

1. **Single Bill** - Pay for multiple AWS accounts with one bill.
    
2. **Master Account** - Designate one account to manage all billing.
    
3. **No Additional Cost** - Consolidated Billing is free.
    
4. **Volume Discounts** - Share usage to benefit from volume pricing discounts.
    
5. **Cost Explorer** - Visualize usage and billing for consolidated accounts.
    

### **AWS Trusted Advisor**

1. **Cost Optimization** - Recommendations for saving money.
    
2. **Performance** - Suggestions for improving system performance.
    
3. **Security** - Advice on enhancing security measures.
    
4. **Fault Tolerance** - Tips for preventing data loss and downtime.
    
5. **Service Limits** - Monitor and manage service limits.
    

### **Service Level Agreement (SLA)**

1. **Formal Commitment** - Expected level of service between provider and customer.
    
2. **Service Level Indicator (SLI)** - Metrics like uptime or performance.
    
3. **Service Level Objective (SLO)** - Specific performance targets (e.g., 99.99% availability).
    
4. **DynamoDB SLA** - Monthly uptime percentage commitments for DynamoDB.
    
5. **SLA Credits** - Compensation for unmet service levels.
    

### **Service Health Dashboard**

1. **General Status** - Shows the status of AWS services.
    
2. **Personal Health Dashboard** - Alerts and guidance on events affecting your environment.
    
3. **Active Events** - Manage and plan for active AWS events.
    
4. **Proactive Notifications** - Receive alerts for scheduled activities.
    
5. **Issue Resolution** - Guidance to diagnose and resolve issues.
    

### **AWS Abuse**

1. **Spam** - Reporting unwanted emails or spam.
    
2. **Port Scanning** - Report attempts to discover unsecured ports.
    
3. **DoS Attacks** - Report flooding attempts to overwhelm resources.
    
4. **Intrusion Attempts** - Report login attempts on your resources.
    
5. **Malware Distribution** - Report distribution of harmful software.
    

### **AWS Credits**

1. **Promotional Credits** - Equivalent to USD dollars for AWS services.
    
2. **Earn Credits** - Through programs like AWS Activate or Hackathons.
    
3. **Expiry Date** - Credits typically have an expiration.
    
4. **Usage Restrictions** - Cannot be used for some services like Route53 domains.
    
5. **Rewards and Events** - Unique opportunities for credits, like speaking engagements.
    

### **AWS Partner Network (APN)**

1. **Global Partner Program** - Opportunities for business and exclusive training.
    
2. **Consulting Partner** - Help companies utilize AWS.
    
3. **Technology Partner** - Build technology on AWS.
    
4. **Tiered Membership** - Select, Advanced, or Premier tiers with different requirements.
    
5. **Certification and Exposure** - APN-exclusive certifications and marketing opportunities.
    

### **AWS Budgets**

1. **Alerts for Budget Limits** - Set alerts for exceeding or approaching budgets.
    
2. **Cost, Usage, or Reservation Budgets** - Track various types of budgets.
    
3. **Customizable Dates** - Manage budgets with specific start and end dates.
    
4. **Daily Reports** - Create and receive daily, weekly, or monthly budget reports.
    
5. **API Integration** - Manage budgets via the AWS Budgets dashboard or API.
    

### **AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR)**

1. **Detailed Reports** - Generate spreadsheets with detailed cost data.
    
2. **Granularity Options** - Choose hourly, daily, or monthly data.
    
3. **Cost Allocation Tags** - Attach metadata to resources for detailed analysis.
    
4. **S3 Storage** - Store reports in S3, query with Athena, visualize with QuickSight.
    
5. **Data Analysis** - Use CUR data for in-depth cost analysis.
    

### **AWS Pricing API**

1. **Query API** - Access pricing information programmatically (JSON).
    
2. **Batch API** - Access pricing data in HTML format.
    
3. **Price Notifications** - Subscribe to SNS for price change alerts.
    
4. **Periodic Changes** - AWS prices change periodically.
    
5. **Latest Price Offerings** - Get updates on new instance types or services.