8 - Pricing and support

Module 8 - Pricing and support

AWS Free Tier

The AWS Free Tier enables you to begin using certain services without having to worry about incurring costs for the specified period.

  • Always Free
  • 12 Months Free
  • Trials

AWS pricing concepts

Pay for what you use. Pay less when you reserve. Pay less with volume-based discounts when you use more.

Billing dashboard

Use the AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard to pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and analyze and control your costs. From the billing dashboard in the AWS Management Console, you can view details on your AWS bill, such as service costs by Region, month to date spend, and more.

Consolidated billing

The consolidated billing feature of AWS Organizations enables you to receive a single bill for all AWS accounts in your organization. By consolidating, you can easily track the combined costs of all the linked accounts in your organization

AWS Budgets

Review how much cost your predicted AWS usage will incur by the end of the month

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer is a tool that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time

AWS Support plans

  • Basic - access to a limited selection of AWS Trusted Advisor checks
  • Developer
    • Best practice guidance
    • Client-side diagnostic tools
    • Building-block architecture support, which consists of guidance for how to use AWS offerings, features, and services together
  • Business
    • Use-case guidance to identify AWS offerings, features, and services that can best support your specific needs
    • All AWS Trusted Advisor checks
    • Limited support for third-party software, such as common operating systems and application stack components
  • Enterprise
    • Application architecture guidance, which is a consultative relationship to support your company’s specific use cases and applications
    • Infrastructure event management: A short-term engagement with AWS Support that helps your company gain a better understanding of your use cases. This also provides your company with architectural and scaling guidance.
    • A Technical Account Manager

AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors. You can use AWS Marketplace to find, test, and buy software that runs on AWS.