Domain 4 - Billing, Pricing, and Support (12%)
Index of notes that fall under Domain 4 — smallest domain, but the cheapest points to secure. Task statements come from the exam guide; a note can appear in more than one domain.
4.1 — Pricing models
- Instance Pricing Options — the comparison table for compute purchasing
- Storage tiers priced by access pattern: Amazon S3 classes, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, Amazon S3 Glacier
- variable costs — pay-as-you-go is the model behind all of it
4.2 — Billing, budget, and cost management
- Cost Management — which tool answers which question
- AWS Pricing Calculator — estimate before you build
- AWS Budgets — alert before overspend
- AWS Cost Explorer — analyze past spend
- AWS Cost and Usage Report — the raw line-item data
- AWS Billing Conductor — custom chargeback rates
- Multi-account: AWS Organizations, consolidated billing (governance side is Domain 2)
- Cost attribution: cost allocation tags, Tags, Resource Groups, AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor
- Optimization: Right-sizing, AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Trusted Advisor cost checks
4.3 — Technical resources and support
- AWS Support plans: Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, Enterprise
- AWS Health Dashboard — service and account health events
- AWS Resources & Support — where the documentation lives
- Partners and paid assistance: AWS Partner Network, AWS Marketplace, AWS Professional Services, AWS Managed Services (AMS), AWS IQ, AWS Activate for Startups