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Billing

Organizations

Manage multiple AWS accounts. (per department, per cost center, like directories..)
Restrict account privileges with Service Control Policies.
Can create consolidated billing.
Pricing benefits from aggregated usage.

SCP: Service Control Policies

Whitelist/blacklist IAM actions.
Nothing is allowed by default, you should allow everything to the root account so the others will inherit.
There is a hierarchy.
SCPs does not applies to service-linked roles.

AWS Control Tower

Setup and govern a multi-account environment.
It automatically setup organizations and OUs. (deny regions...)

RAM: Resource Access Manager

Share AWS resources with other accounts (VPC, instances..)

AWS Service Catalog

Automated service usage with templates. You can create your own services into the catalog.

Pricing

  • Pay-as-you-go: For what you use. Agile, responsive.
  • Save when you reserve: Minimize risks, predictive budget. Pay less.
  • Pay less by using more
  • Pay less as AWS grows

EC2 Pricing

  • On-demand: Minimum 60s, pay second.
  • Reserved instances: 1 or 3 year commitment.
  • Dedicated Hosts: Dedicated on-demand or with reservation.
  • Spot instances: Unused instances but can be deleted at any moment.
  • Savings plans: Commit do spending a certain $ per hour for 1/3 years.
    • Up to 72% discount
    • Compute savings plan allow to change EC2 offer
    • Savings plan is available for ML services

Compute Optimizer

Recommend optimal AWS resources for your workload.

Billing and Costing tools

IMPORTANT:

- Estimating cost:

  • Pricing calculator: Compute future cost and usage

- Tracking cost:

  • Billing dashboard: Main dashboard with graphs
  • Cost allocation tags: Tags to group costs
  • Cost and usage reports: Report to CSV files, databases..
  • Cost explorer: More precise graphs & prediction

- Monitoring against costs plans:

  • Billing alarms: Alarm on high usage. Simple threshold.
  • Budgets: Send alarm when usage or forecast exceeds the budget.

Cost Anomaly Detection

Detect unusual spends.

Service Quotas

Notify you when certain services hit a threshold (ex: lambda 900 concurrent executions)

Trusted Advisor

General AWS suggestions. Business & Enterprise support plan for all checks. There are cost optimization checks, performance, security, service limit checks...

Support plans

  • Basic Plan:

    • Customer service & communities.
    • Trusted advisor basic (7 checks)

  • Developer Plan:

    • Business hours email access to Cloud Support Associates
    • Unlimited cases, 1 primary contact
    • < 24h for general guidance
    • < 12h response on system impaired

  • Business Support Plan:

    • 24/7 phone, mail + chat access to Cloud Support Engineers
    • Unlimited cases & contacts
    • Full trusted advisor
    • < 4h on production system impaired
    • < 1h on production system down

  • Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan:

    • Access to a pool of technical account managers
    • Concierge Support Team (billing best practices)
    • Architecture, infrastructure management reviews
    • < 30 min on business critical system down

  • Enterprise Support Plan:

    • < 15 min on business critical system down