AWS Pricing & Support
After creating a new AWS account most of us are worried about exhausting our credit limit, So AWS has various different services to manage the pricing.
The AWS Free Tier enables you to begin using certain services without having to worry about incurring costs for the specified period.
Three types of offers are available:
- Always Free — These offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers.
- 12 Months Free — These offers are free for 12 months following your initial sign-up date to AWS.
- Trials — Short-term free trial offers start from the date you activate a particular service. The length of each trial might vary by number of days or the amount of usage in the service.
Few of the different AWS pricing models -
- Pay for what you use — For each service, you pay for exactly the amount of resources that you actually use, without requiring long-term contracts or complex licensing.
- Pay less when you reserve — Some services offer reservation options that provide a significant discount compared to On-Demand Instance pricing.
- Pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more — Some services offer tiered pricing, so the per-unit cost is incrementally lower with increased usage.
The AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS.
Few of the AWS pricing model/examples -
- AWS Lambda pricing allows 1 million free requests and up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time per month.
- Amazon EC2 pricing — you pay for only the compute time that you use while your instances are running.
AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard — is used to pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and analyze and control your costs.
The consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations enables you to receive a single bill for all AWS accounts in your organization.
In AWS Budgets, you can create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations.
AWS Cost Explorer is a console-based service tool that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
AWS offers four different Support plans to help you troubleshoot issues, lower costs, and efficiently use AWS services.
- Basic Support is free for all AWS customers. It includes access to whitepapers, documentation, and support communities.
- Developer Support — Includes everything in the basic support level + email access to customer support
- Business Support — includes everything in basic & developer support + AWS trusted advisor + direct call acces to customer support + infrastructure event management.
- Enterprise support — Includes basic, developer and business support + 15mins SLA for business-critical workloads + dedicated technical account manager (TAM)
AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors.
