Service Catalog

• Users that are new to AWS have too many options, and may create stacks that are not compliant / in line with the rest of the organization

• Some users just want a quick self-service portal to launch a set of authorized products pre-defined by admins

• Includes: virtual machines, databases, storage options, etc...

• Enter AWS Service Catalog!

Diagram

Pricing Models in AWS

• AWS has 4 pricing models:

• Pay as you go: pay for what you use, remain agile, responsive, meet scale demands

• Save when you reserve: minimize risks, predictably manage budgets, comply with long-terms requirements

  • Reservations are available for EC2 Reserved Instances, DynamoDB Reserved Capacity, ElastiCache Reserved Nodes, RDS Reserved Instance, Redshift Reserved Nodes

• Pay less by using more: volume-based discounts

• Pay less as AWS grows

Free services & free tier in AWS

• IAM

• VPC

• Consolidated Billing

• Elastic Beanstalk

• CloudFormation

• Auto Scaling Groups

• Free Tier: https://aws.amazon.com/free/

• EC2 t2.micro instance for a year

• S3, EBS, ELB, AWS Data transfer

Compute Pricing – EC2

• Only charged for what you use

• Number of instances

• Instance configuration:

• Physical capacity

• Region

• OS and software

• Instance type

• Instance size

• ELB running time and amount of data processed

• Detailed monitoring

• On-demand instances:

• Minimum of 60s

• Pay per second (Linux/Windows) or per hour (other)

• Reserved instances:

• Up to 75% discount compared to On-demand on hourly rate

• 1- or 3-years commitment

• All upfront, partial upfront, no upfront

• Spot instances:

• Up to 90% discount compared to On-demand on hourly rate

• Bid for unused capacity

• Dedicated Host:

• On-demand

• Reservation for 1 year or 3 years commitment

• Savings plans as an alternative to save on sustained usage

Compute Pricing – Lambda & ECS

• Lambda:

• Pay per call

• Pay per duration

• ECS:

• EC2 Launch Type Model: No additional fees, you pay for AWS resources stored and created in your application

• Fargate:

• Fargate Launch Type Model: Pay for vCPU and memory resources allocated to your applications in your container

Storage Pricing – S3

• Storage class: S3 Standard, S3 Infrequent Access, S3 One-Zone IA, S3 Intelligent Tiering, S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive

• Number and size of objects: Price can be tiered (based on volume)

• Number and type of requests

• Data transfer OUT of the S3 region

• S3 Transfer Acceleration

• Lifecycle transitions

• Similar service: EFS (pay per-use, has infrequent access & lifecycle rules)

Storage Pricing - EBS

• Volume type (based on performance)

• Storage volume in GB per month provisioned

• IOPS:

• General Purpose SSD: Included

• Provisioned IOPS SSD: Provisioned amount in IOPS

• Magnetic: Number of requests

• Snapshots:

• Added data cost per GB per month

• Data transfer:

• Outbound data transfers are tiered for volume discounts

• Inbound is free

Database Pricing - RDS

• Per hour billing

• Database characteristics:

  • Engine

  • Size

  • Memory class

• Purchase type:

  • On-demand

  • Reserved instances (1 or 3 years) with required up-front

• Backup Storage: There is no additional charge for backup storage up to 100% of your total database storage for a region.

• Additional storage (per GB per month)

• Number of input and output requests per month

• Deployment type (storage and I/O are variable):

  • Single AZ

  • Multiple AZs

• Data transfer:

  • Outbound data transfers are tiered for volume discounts

  • Inbound is free

Content Delivery – CloudFront

• Pricing is different across different geographic regions

• Aggregated for each edge location, then applied to your bill

• Data Transfer Out (volume discount)

• Number of HTTP/HTTPS requests

Networking Costs in AWS per GB - Simplified

• Use Private IP instead of Public IP for good savings and better network performance

• Use the same AZ for maximum savings (at the cost of high availability)