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AWS Support Options Amazon provides a rich set of AWS resources as well as human resources to assist you in AWS. There are different plans you can invest in to try to match your needs and your budget with a plan that makes sense for your organization. Figure 21-5 shows the AWS Support home page….

Other AWS Technical Resources While the preceding resources are nothing short of amazing, there are plenty of other technical resources that you might want to avail yourself of. Here are some of the biggest that you should know: AWS Prescriptive Guidance: This AWS website provides best practice strategies, guides, and patterns to help with your…

AWS Technical Resources Let’s begin this chapter with a tour of the many technical resources that are available for you when it comes to AWS. As mentioned earlier, many of these incredible resources are available completely free of charge. Documentation, Whitepapers, and Blogs The AWS documentation is very good. It is an excellent mix of…

Pricing Calculator The AWS Pricing Calculator is a handy tool that lets you estimate how much your AWS usage will cost before you actually start using it. You can pick and choose the services you need and adjust the settings to match your usage, and the calculator gives you a price tag. It allows you…

AWS Billing and Cost Management AWS Billing and Cost Management is the service you use to pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and budget your current and future costs. AWS automatically charges the credit card you provided when you signed up for a new account with AWS. Charges appear on your credit card bill…

Spot Instance Pricing One of the most interesting pricing plans for AWS compute resources is the Spot Instance pricing plan. With this pricing plan, users can bid on unused compute capacity available with AWS. Since the compute resources are unused, AWS offers them at a remarkable discount of up to 90% when compared to the…

On-Demand Instance Pricing The default pricing model when you use AWS EC2 to spin up virtual machine resources is the On-Demand Instance pricing model. This is a hugely popular option, and it is not just because it is the default. With this model, you are not committed to any baseline amount of usage. You can…

General AWS Pricing Practices Remember that the general concept of pricing in AWS follows the utility company model. Furthermore, AWS pricing is based on these general concepts: Pay as you go: AWS allows you to pay as you go, without excessive long-term commitments. This ensures adaptability and helps eliminate CapEx costs for IT. Pay less…

AWS WorkSpaces AppStream 2.0 is an amazing technology, but it won’t help you if you want to make an entire Windows or Linux desktop available to a user anytime, anywhere, and on any device they might have. However, AWS offers a solution for this: WorkSpaces. WorkSpaces is a managed desktop computing service that lets you…