Fundamental of Pricing

→ There are three fundamental drivers of the cost with AWS.

1.Comput

→ For computing, AWS charges fall into two categories: one is charged per hour/second, and the other varies by instance.

2.Storage → charged typically per GB

3.Data Transfer

→ Outbound is aggregated and charged.

→ InBound has no charge with some exceptions

→ Charged typically per GB

How to get AWS Free Tier

→ AWS offers 1 year of free tier for new customers.

firstly Sign up for an AWS account

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EBS for storage

first, what is EBS in AWS ?

→ Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides scalable, high-performance block storage resources that can be used with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

More to learn EBS.

Here are some examples of the AWS EBS for storage.

VPC, Beanstalk, Scaling, CloudFormation, IAM(free)

Total Cost of Ownership.

→ Total Cost of Ownership(TCO) is the financial estimate to help identify direct and indirect costs of a system.

Why use Total Cost of Ownership(TCO).

→ To compare the costs of running an entire infrastructure environment or specific workload on-premises versus AWS.

→ To budget and build the business case for moving to the cloud.

→ Use the AWS pricing calculator for monthly and annual costs.

What is AWS Organization ?

→ AWS Organizations helps you easily manage and control multiple AWS accounts as your needs grow. With Organizations, you can create accounts, assign resources, group them for better organization, set rules to maintain security, and combine all billing into one simple payment method.

More to learn AWS Organizations.

AWS Organizations Terminology .

→ Here’s some terminology for understanding the structure of AWS Organizations. The diagram shows a basic organization or route that consists of seven organizational units(OUs). An OUs is a branch for accounts . A branch can also contain other branches no different than a regular tree . This hierarchy is like an upside-down tree with the root at the top. A branch can have only one parent and each account can be a member of exactly one branch. An account is a standard AWS Account that contains your AWS resources.

Keys features and benefits of AWS Organizations

1. Policy-based account management

2. Group-based account management

3. Application programming interfaces(APIs) that automate account management

4. Consolidated billing

Security with AWS Organizations

→ Control access with AWS Identity and Access Management.

→ IAM policies enable you to allow or deny access to AWS services for users, groups, and roles.

→Service control policies (SCPs) enable you to allow or deny access to AWS services for individuals or group accounts in an organization unit(OU).

How to Setup Organizations.

Step-1 → Create Organization

Step-2 → Create organizational units

Step-3 → Create service control policies

Step-4→ Test restrictions

How You Can Access AWS Organizations?

1. AWS Management Console

2. AWS Command-Line Interface(AWS CLI) tools

3. Software development kits(SDKs)

4. HTTPS Query application programming interfaces(API)

AWS Billing and Cost Management

AWS provides various tools to help users monitor, control, and optimize their cloud spending efficiently. Key services include:

1. AWS Budgets

   • Allows users to set custom budgets for AWS costs and usage.

   • Sends alerts when spending approaches or exceeds the budget limit.

2. AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)

   • Provides detailed insights into AWS service usage and costs.

   • Helps with cost analysis, tracking trends, and optimizing spending.

3. AWS Cost Explorer

   • A visualization tool that helps analyze past AWS spending patterns.

   • Provides forecasting to estimate future costs based on usage trends.

More to learn about Billing and cost management.

AWS Technical Support Models Plans

1. Basic Support Plans → In these support plans you have Resource center access, service Health Dashboard, Product FAQ, discussion forum

2. Developer support → support for early development on AWS

3. Business support → Customers that run production workloads

4. Enterprise support → Customers that run business and mission-critical workloads