AWS Cost Management Flashcards
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Which AWS service charge is most commonly overlooked and can grow significantly with cross-region traffic?
Answer: Data transfer / egress costs
Data transfer, especially outbound and cross-region, is a frequently underestimated cost driver.
In Cost Explorer, what does the RI utilization report show?
Answer: Which RIs are unused or underused
The RI utilization report reveals how much of your purchased reserved capacity is actually being used.
Which storage class is cheapest for archival data that is rarely accessed and tolerates retrieval times of up to 12 hours?
Answer: S3 Glacier Deep Archive
S3 Glacier Deep Archive offers the lowest storage cost for long-term archives with long retrieval times.
What is a key advantage of Savings Plans over standard Reserved Instances?
Answer: Greater flexibility across instance families, regions, and even compute services like Lambda and Fargate
Compute Savings Plans apply flexibly across families, regions, OS, and services such as Lambda and Fargate.
Which feature helps detect unusual spikes in spending automatically using machine learning?
Answer: AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection uses ML to identify and alert on unexpected spending spikes.
When right-sizing, what risk comes from choosing an instance that is too small?
Answer: Performance degradation and potential SLA violations
Under-provisioning saves money but risks performance issues and SLA breaches.
What does the AWS Pricing Calculator help you do?
Answer: Estimate costs for a planned architecture before deploying
The AWS Pricing Calculator provides upfront cost estimates for planned workloads and architectures.