Designing Cost-Effective Solutions

1. What are the two main components of calculating management service costs at AWS that are applied to every service?
The two main components of calculating management service costs at AWS that are applied to every service are the compute and storage used to carry out the management service.

2. What is the key driver behind data transfer costs?
The key driver behind a data transfer cost is the egress traffic from AWS or from an availability zone or from a region to an external location.

3. What is the term for calculating costs depending on the usage of a service or resource?
With a tiered, or sliding, price point based on usage, costs are calculated depending on the usage of a service or resource.

4. What are the two components of storage charges other than data transfer charges?
The two components of storage charges, in addition to data transfer charges, are storage and retrieval pricing.

5. What type of reserved instance pricing allows you to guarantee instance capacity?
Zonal reserved instance pricing guarantees instance capacity for the selected availability zone.

6. What savings plan option provides cost savings for both instances and containers?
A compute savings plan applies to both Fargate containers and EC2 instances.

7. EC2 Fleet allows you to request target capacity using what variable?
EC2 Fleet allows you to request target capacity using vCPUs.

8. What is the purpose of creating and enabling cost allocation tags?
A cost allocation tag can help break out your costs into meaningful summaries using AWS Cost Explorer.