AWS Pricing, Billing and Cost Management Flashcards
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Which AWS pricing benefit consolidates billing for multiple accounts and applies volume discounts across the entire organization?
Answer: Consolidated Billing
Consolidated Billing through AWS Organizations combines usage across all member accounts, enabling volume pricing tiers and a single invoice.
Which AWS tool recommends cost savings by identifying idle resources and opportunities to purchase Reserved Instances?
Answer: AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your environment and provides recommendations including cost optimization checks like underutilized instances.
What does AWS mean by 'pay-as-you-go' pricing?
Answer: Pay only for the resources you actually consume, with no upfront cost
AWS's pay-as-you-go model means you pay only for what you use, with no minimum fees or upfront commitments required.
Which AWS Savings Plan type offers the most flexibility by applying discounts across any EC2 instance family, region, OS, and tenancy?
Answer: Compute Savings Plans
Compute Savings Plans offer up to 66% savings and apply automatically to any EC2, Fargate, or Lambda usage regardless of instance type or region.
Which AWS service provides recommendations to rightsize EC2 instances based on actual utilization data?
Answer: AWS Compute Optimizer
AWS Compute Optimizer uses machine learning to analyze CloudWatch metrics and recommend the optimal instance type for your workloads.
Which AWS data transfer cost is always free regardless of volume?
Answer: Data transferred into AWS from the internet (inbound)
Inbound data transfer (from the internet into AWS) is always free; outbound and cross-region transfers incur charges.