Module 2

AWS pricing model

You only pay for what you use. You pay less when you reserve. You pay less when you use more and as AWS grows

Pay less when you reserve

You can sign a contract with Amazon saying that you're going to use the resources for a year for example. You can save up to 75% with this route.

Custom pricing

Custom pricing can be done for massive organizations such as Cisco or large Universities

Total cost of Ownership (TCO)

• Server costs for both hardware and software and facilities costs to house the equipment. •

• Storage costs for the hardware, administration, and facilities. •

• Network costs for hardware, administration, and facilities. •

• And IT labor costs that are required to administer the entire solution.Cloud vs On-premises price example

AWS Pricing Calculator

The AWS pricing calculator can be used to calculate AWS pricing for monthly estimates and give recommendations on where to save money. It can also model solutions for you before you build them.

AWS Pricing Calculatorcalculator.aws

Benefits Considerations

AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations are essentially the same thing as Azure Tenants

• Policy-based account management can be configured

• Group based account management can be configured

• APIs that automate management can be configured

• Consolidated billing is an option

Security with AWS Organizations

Organizations setup

AWS support

Support for AWS can come from AWS Support or an AWS Support Plan. Support is provided for experimenting with AWS, production use of AWS and business-critical use of AWS

Support plans