AWS offers pay-as-you-go pricing for over 120 cloud services, allowing customers to pay only for what they use without long-term contracts. Pricing is driven by compute, storage, and data transfer usage and is transparent across independently priced services. Customers can optimize costs by choosing the right pricing model for their needs such as On-Demand, Reserved Instances, or Spot Instances.

1. Intro

2. AWS Pricing
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▪ AWS offers you a pay-as-you-go approach for pricing for over 120
cloud services.
▪ With AWS you pay only for the individual services you need, for as
long as you use them, and without requiring long-term contracts
or complex licensing.
▪ AWS pricing is similar to how you pay for utilities like water and
electricity.
▪ You only pay for the services you consume, and once you stop
using them, there are no additional costs or termination fees.

3. AWS Pricing
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▪ Understand the fundamentals of pricing
– There are three fundamental drivers of cost with AWS: compute, storage, and
outbound data transfer.
▪ Start early with cost optimization
▪ Maximize the power of flexibility
– AWS services are priced independently and transparently, so you can choose
and pay for exactly what you need and no more
▪ Use the right pricing model for the job
– On Demand
– Dedicated Instances
– Spot Instances
– Reservations

4. AWS Support Plans
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Basic Developer Business Enterprise
Pricing Included Greater of $29
- or -
3% of monthlyAWS usage
Pricing example
Greater of $100
- or -
10% of monthlyAWS
usage for the first $0–
$10K
7% of monthlyAWS usage
from $10K–$80K
5% of monthlyAWS usage
from $80K–$250K
3% of monthlyAWS usage
over $250K
Pricing example
Greater of $15,000
- or -
10% of monthlyAWS
usage for the first $0–
$150K
7% of monthlyAWS usage
from $150K–$500K
5% of monthlyAWS usage
from $500K–$1M
3% of monthlyAWS usage
over $1M
Pricing example

5. AWS Support Plans
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▪ All AWS Support plans include an unlimited number of account
and billing support cases, with no long-term contracts.
▪ Support billing calculations are performed on a per-account
basis for all plans. Enterprise Support plan customers have the
option to include multiple enabled accounts in an aggregated
monthly billing calculation.
▪ Monthly charges for the Developer, Business, and Enterprise
Support plans are based on each month's AWS usage charges,
subject to a monthly minimum.
▪ As yourAWS charges grow, you earn volume discounts on your
AWS Support costs.

6. Tagging
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▪ A tag is a label that you assign to an AWS resource.A tag
consists of a key and a value, both of which you define. For
example, if you have two Amazon EC2 instances, you might
assign both a tag key of "Stack." But the value of "Stack" might
be "Testing" for one and "Production" for the other.
▪ Tagging can help you organize your resources and enables you
to simplify resource management, access management and
cost allocation.

7. Tagging
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▪ You can use the resource groups tagging API operations to
complete the following tasks:
– Tag and untag supported resources located in the specified region for the
AWS account
– Use tag-based filters to search for resources located in the specified
region for the AWS account
– List all existing tag keys in the specified region for the AWS account
– List all existing values for the specified key in the specified region for the
AWS account
▪ Not all resources can have tags.

8. Resource Groups
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▪ A resource group is a collection of resources that share one or more tags or
portions of tags.To create a resource group, you simply identify the tags
that contain the items that members of the group should have in common.
▪ If you or your administrator uses the AWS Identity and Access Management
(IAM) service to create multiple users in the same account, those users have
their own individual resource groups.These groups are not visible to other
users. However, each user can share a resource group with others in the
same account by sharing a URL, which lets another user create a resource
group with the same parameters.
▪ The tags themselves function like properties of a resource, so they are
shared across the entire account.That way, users in a department can draw
from a common vocabulary (tags) within the department or account to
create resource groups that are meaningful to their roles and
responsibilities. Having a common pool of tags also means that when
users share a resource group, they don't have to worry about missing or
conflicting tag information.

9. Consolidated Billing
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▪ You can use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to
consolidate payment for multiple AWS accounts or multiple AISPL
accounts. Each organization in AWS Organizations has a master
account that pays the charges of all the member accounts. If you have
access to the master account, you can see a combined view of the AWS
charges that are incurred by the member accounts.You also can get a
cost report for each member account.
▪ Consolidated billing has the following benefits:
– One bill –You get one bill for multiple accounts.
– Easy tracking –You can track each account's charges, and download the cost
data in .csv format.
– Combined usage – If you have multiple standalone accounts, your charges
might decrease if you add the accounts to an organization. AWS combines
usage from all accounts in the organization to qualify you for volume pricing
discounts. For more information, seeVolume Discounts.
– No extra fee – Consolidated billing is offered at no additional cost.

10. AWS Organizations
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▪ AWS Organizations offers policy-based management for
multiple AWS accounts.With Organizations, you can create
groups of accounts and then apply policies to those groups.
Organizations enables you to centrally manage policies across
multiple accounts, without requiring custom scripts and manual
processes.
▪ Using AWS Organizations, you can create Service Control Policies
(SCPs) that centrally controlAWS service use across multiple
AWS accounts.You can also use Organizations to help automate
the creation of new accounts throughAPIs. Organizations helps
simplify the billing for multiple accounts by enabling you to setup
a single payment method for all the accounts in your
organization through consolidated billing. AWS Organizations is
available to all AWS customers at no additional charge.

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▪ Centralized management of all of yourAWS accounts
▪ Consolidated billing for all member accounts
▪ Hierarchical grouping of your accounts to meet your budgetary,
security, or compliance needs
▪ Control over the AWS services and API actions that each account
can access
▪ Integration and support forAWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM)
▪ Integration with otherAWS services
▪ Data replication that is eventually consistent

12. AWS Quick Starts
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▪ Quick Starts are built by AWS solutions architects and partners to
help you deploy popular solutions onAWS, based onAWS best
practices for security and high availability.
▪ These reference deployments implement key technologies
automatically on the AWS Cloud, often with a single click and in
less than an hour.
▪ You can build your test or production environment in a few steps,
and start using it immediately.

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▪ Quick Starts are automated reference deployments for key workloads on the
AWS Cloud. Each Quick Start launches, configures, and runs the AWS
compute, network, storage, and other services required to deploy a specific
workload onAWS, using AWS best practices for security and availability.
▪ Quick Starts are accelerators that eliminate hundreds of manual steps with a
single click.They are fast, low-cost, and customizable.They are fully
functional and designed for production.
▪ Quick Starts include:
– A reference architecture for the deployment
– AWS CloudFormation templates (JSON orYAML scripts) that automate and configure
the deployment
– A deployment guide, which explains the architecture and implementation in detail, and
provides instructions for customizing the deployment
▪ Quick Starts also include integrations that extend the cloud-based contact
center functionality provided by Amazon Connect with key services and
solutions from AWS partners—for customer relationship management (CRM),
workforce optimization (WFO), analytics, unified communications (UC), and
other use cases.

14. AWS Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) Calculators
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▪ AWS helps you reduceTotal Cost of Ownership (TCO) by
reducing the need to invest in large capital expenditures and
providing a pay-as-you-go model that empowers you to invest in
the capacity you need and use it only when the business requires
it.
▪ OurTCO calculators allow you to estimate the cost savings when
using AWS and provide a detailed set of reports that can be used
in executive presentations.The calculators also give you the
option to modify assumptions that best meet your business
needs.

15. AWS Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) Calculators
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▪ Get an instant summary report which shows you the three year
TCO comparison by cost categories.

16. AWS Pricing Philosophy
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