AWS Pricing Calculator

How do you pay for AWS?

Pay-as-you-go

With AWS you only pay for what use, helping your organization remain agile, responsive and
always able to meet scale demands.

Pay-as-you-go pricing allows you to easily adapt to changing business needs without
overcommitting budgets and improving your responsiveness to changes. With a pay as you go
model, you can adapt your business depending on need and not on forecasts, reducing the risk or
overprovisioning or missing capacity.

By paying for services on an as needed basis, you can redirect your focus to innovation and
invention, reducing procurement complexity and enabling your business to be fully elastic.

On Premises/Colocation
AWS

YEARS

UNDERUTILIZATION

Save when you commit

Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that provides significant savings on your AWS usage.
This pricing model offers lower prices on AWS Compute and AWS Machine Learning. Savings
Plans offer savings over On-Demand in exchange for a commitment to use a specific amount
(measured in $/hour) of an AWS service or a category of services, for a one- or three-year
period.

You can sign up for Savings Plans for a 1- or 3-year term and easily manage your plans by
taking advantage of recommendations, performance reporting, and budget alerts in the AWS
Cost Explorer.

1
Pay less by using more

With AWS, you can get volume based discounts and realize important savings as your usage
increases. For services such as S3 and data transfer OUT from EC2, pricing is tiered, meaning
the more you use, the less you pay per GB. In addition, data transfer IN is always free of charge.
As a result, as your AWS usage needs increase, you benefit from the economies of scale that
allow you to increase adoption and keep costs under control.

As your organization evolves, AWS also gives you options to acquire services that help you
address your business needs. For example, AWS’ storage services portfolio, offers options to
help you lower pricing based on how frequently you access data, and the performance you need
to retrieve it. To optimize your savings, choose the right combinations of storage solutions that
help you reduce costs while preserving performance, security and durability.

Learn more about tiered pricing »

UP to 50TB Storage 0.023 GB/month

51-100TB Storage 0.022 GB/month

500TB+ Storage 0.021 GB/month

2
Pay even less as AWS grows– As AWS grows,they focus more on reducing data centre
hardware costs, improving operational efficiencies, lowering power consumption and the cost of
doing business. These optimizations and AWS’s substantial growth, results in savings that is
passed on to customers in form of low pricing.
Custom pricing – This for high volume projects with unique requirements.
How AWS Pricing Works AWS Whitepaper
Get started with the AWS Free Tier - 12 Months Free
The AWS Free Tier enables you to gain free, hands-on experience with more than 60 products
on AWS platform. AWS Free Tier includes the following free offer types:
• 12 Months Free – These tier offers include 12 months free usage following your initial sign-up
date to AWS. When your 12 month free usage term expires, or if your application use exceeds
the tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.
• Always Free – These free tier offers do not expire and are available to all AWS customers.
• Trials – These offers are short term free trials starting from date you activate a particular
service. Once the trial period expires, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates.
This section lists some of the most commonly used AWS Free Tier services. Terms and
conditions apply.
For the full list of AWS Free Tier services, see AWS Free Tier.
12 Months Free
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2): 750 hours per month of Linux, RHEL, or
SLES t2.micro/
t3.micro instance usage or 750 hours per month of Windows t2.micro/t3.micro instance
usage dependent on Region.
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000
Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests.
• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS): 750 hours of Amazon RDS Single-
AZ db.t2.micro database usage for running MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle BYOL, or
SQL Server (running SQL Server Express Edition); 20 GB of general purpose SSD database
storage and 20 GB of storage for database backup and DB snapshots.
• Amazon CloudFront: 50 GB Data Transfer Out and 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS
Requests each month
Always Free -
• Amazon DynamoDB: Up to 200 million requests per month (25 Write Capacity units and 25

3
Capacity units); 25 GB of storage.
• Amazon S3 Glacier: Retrieve up to 10 GB of your Amazon S3 Glacier data per month for free
(applies to standard retrievals using the Glacier API only).
• AWS Lambda: 1 million free requests per month; up to 3.2 million seconds of compute time
per month.

Trials
• Amazon SageMaker: 250 hours per month of t2.medium notebook,50 hours per month of
m4.xlarge for training, 125 hours per month of m4.xlarge for hosting for the first two months.
• Amazon Redshift: 750 hours per month for free, enough hours to continuously run one
DC2.Large node with 160GB of compressed SSD storage. You can also build clusters with
multiple nodes to test larger data sets, which will consume your free hours more quickly. Once
your two month free trial expires or your usage exceeds 750 hours per month, you can shut down
your cluster to avoid any charges, or keep it running at the standard On-Demand Rate.

The AWS Free Tier is not available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions or the China (Beijing)
Region at this time. The Lambda Free Tier is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region.

AWS provides a set of out-of-the-box cost management tools to help you manage, monitor, and
optimize your costs. These key services and solutions to help you manage your cloud spend
include
AWS Trusted Advisor Since 2013, AWS customers have viewed over 2.6 million best-
practice recommendations and realized over $300M by using AWS cloud cost optimization
tools. AWS Trusted Advisor provides you real-time guidance to help you provision your
resources, following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor helps optimize your entire AWS
infrastructure to increase security and performance and reduce your overall costs. Watch a
technical walk through of the service and console.

AWS Cost Explorer AWS Cost Explorer helps visualize and manage your AWS costs and
usage over time. A set of default reports are included to help you quickly gain insight into your
cost drivers and usage trends. Use forecasting to get a better idea of what your costs and usage
may look like in the future.
AWS Budgets AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom alerts for when your
costs or usage exceed your budgeted threshold. You can also use AWS Budgets to set reservation
utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below defined
parameters. Reservation alerts are supported for Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2),
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache,
and Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES).
AWS Cost & Usage Report The AWS Cost & Usage Report contains the most comprehensive
set of AWS cost and usage data available. The AWS Cost & Usage Report lists AWS usage for

4
each service category used by an account and its AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
users in hourly or daily line items, as well as any tags that you have activated for cost allocation
purposes.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
TSO Logic To assist potential customers with planning a migration, TSO Logic (an AWS
company) provides data-driven Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and cost modelling analysis, so
customers can plan for their ideal future state on AWS.
CloudChomp (CC) - AWS recommends CloudChomp to all customers looking for a third-party
solution to help analyze their IT environment and produce an accurate TCO assessment.
CloudChomp software dynamically connects to the AWS Pricing API, and analyzes your IT
systems, virtual machines and software licenses, for an accurate read of your utilization and
spending patterns.

On-Premises TCO Estimation - CC Analyzer’s 1ClickTCO feature uses a five-pillar

methodology for on-premises TCO estimation. The costs incurred in the source environment are
broadly divided into five components: server, storage, network, data center, and personnel costs.

Figure 2 – CC Analyzer’s five-pillar TCO analysis methodology.

 Server Costs: Includes the cost for purchasing and maintaining compute hardware,
virtualization software, and operating system costs.
 Storage Costs: Includes purchase and maintenance cost for storage hardware and
software.
 Network Costs: Includes network hardware and software purchase and maintenance
cost.
 Data Center Costs: Includes data center costs, such as rack costs, power costs, and
others.

 Personnel Costs: Includes labor/personnel costs for managing and maintaining

computer, storage, and network capabilities.

5
https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?
id=e6ecb50bea8296bb981b88d95966c3357
d0b6c66

AWS Organizations
How it works

6
 Manage Accounts Through AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations is an account management service that lets you consolidate multiple AWS
accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. With Organizations, you can
create member accounts and invite existing accounts to join your organization.

You can organize those accounts into groups and attach policy-based controls. For more
information, see AWS Organizations User Guide.

In AWS Control Tower, Organizations helps centrally manage billing; control access,
compliance, and security; and share resources across your member AWS accounts. Accounts are
grouped into logical groups, called organizational units (OUs). For more information on
Organizations, see AWS Organizations User Guide.

AWS Control Tower uses the following OUs:

• Root – The parent container for all accounts and all other OUs in your landing zone.

• Security – This OU contains the log archive account, the audit account, and the resources
they own.

• Sandbox – This OU is created when you set up your landing zone. It and other child OUs in
your landing zone contain your member accounts. These are the accounts that your end users
access to perform work on AWS resources.
Note
You can add additional OUs in your landing zone through the AWS Control Tower console
on the
Organizational units page.
Considerations
OUs created through AWS Control Tower can have guardrails applied to them. OUs created
outside of AWS Control Tower cannot, by default. You can, however, register such OUs. Once
you have registered an OU, you can apply guardrails to it and its accounts. For information on
registering an OU, see Register an existing organizational unit with AWS Control Tower (p.

Security in AWS Organizations

Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. As an AWS customer, you benefit from a data
center and network architecture that is built to meet the requirements of the most security-
sensitive organizations.
Security is a shared responsibility between AWS and you. The shared responsibility model
describes this as security of the cloud and security in the cloud:
• Security of the cloud – AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs AWS
services in the AWS Cloud. AWS also provides you with services that you can use securely.

7
Third-party auditors - regularly test and verify the effectiveness of our security as part of the
AWS compliance programs. To learn about the compliance programs that apply to AWS
Organizations, see AWS Services in Scope by Compliance Program
• Security in the cloud – Your responsibility is determined by the AWS service that you use.
You are also responsible for other factors including the sensitivity of your data, your
company’s requirements, and applicable laws and regulations.

AWS Identity and Access Management and AWS Organizations

Access to AWS Organizations requires credentials. Those credentials must have permissions to
access AWS resources, such as an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, an
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, or an AWS Organizations
organizational unit (OU). The following sections provide details on how you can use AWS
Identity and Access Management (IAM) to help secure access to your organization and control
who can administer it.

To determine who can administer which parts of your organization, AWS Organizations uses the
same IAM-based permissions model as other AWS services. As an administrator in the
management account of an organization, you can grant IAM-based permissions to perform AWS
Organizations tasks by attaching policies to users, groups, and roles in the management account.
Those policies specify the actions that those principals can perform. You attach an IAM
permissions policy to a group that the user is a member of or directly to a user or role. As a best
practice, we recommend that you attach policies to groups instead of users. You also have the
option to grant full administrator permissions to others.

For most administrator operations for AWS Organizations, you need to attach permissions to
users or groups in the management account. If a user in a member account needs to perform
administrator operations for your organization, you need to grant the AWS Organizations
permissions to an IAM role in the management account and enable the user in the member
account to assume the role. For general information about IAM permissions policies, see
Overview of IAM Policies in the IAM User Guide.

8
 Service control policies (SCPs)
For information and procedures common to all policy types, see the following topics:

 Enable and disable policy types

 Get details about your policies
 Policy syntax and inheritance

Service control policies (SCPs) are a type of organization policy that you can use to manage
permissions in your organization. SCPs offer central control over the maximum available
permissions for all accounts in your organization. SCPs help you to ensure your accounts stay
within your organization’s access control guidelines. SCPs are available only in an organization
that has all features enabled. SCPs aren't available if your organization has enabled only the
consolidated billing features. For instructions on enabling SCPs, see Enabling and disabling
policy types.

SCPs alone are not sufficient to granting permissions to the accounts in your organization.
No permissions are granted by an SCP. An SCP defines a guardrail, or sets limits, on the

9
actions that the account's administrator can delegate to the IAM users and roles in the affected
accounts. The administrator must still attach identity-based or resource-based policies to IAM
users or roles, or to the resources in your accounts to actually grant permissions. The effective
permissions are the logical intersection between what is allowed by the SCP and what is allowed
by the IAM and resource-based policies.

Important

SCPs don't affect users or roles in the management account. They affect only the member
accounts in your organization.

Topics

 Testing effects of SCPs

 Maximum size of SCPs
 Inheritance of SCPs in the OU hierarchy
 SCP effects on permissions
 Using access data to improve SCPs
 Tasks and entities not restricted by SCPs
 Creating, updating, and deleting service control policies
 Attaching and detaching service control policies
 Strategies for using SCPs
 SCP syntax
 Example service control policies

10
Testing effects of SCPs
AWS strongly recommends that you don't attach SCPs to the root of your organization without
thoroughly testing the impact that the policy has on accounts. Instead, create an OU that you can
move your accounts into one at a time, or at least in small numbers, to ensure that you don't
inadvertently lock users out of key services. One way to determine whether a service is used by
an account is to examine the service last accessed data in IAM. Another way is to use AWS
CloudTrail to log service usage at the API level.

Maximum size of SCPs

All characters in your SCP count against its maximum size. The examples in this guide show the
SCPs formatted with extra white space to improve their readability. However, to save space if
your policy size approaches the maximum size, you can delete any white space, such as space
characters and line breaks that are outside quotation marks.

Tip

Use the visual editor to build your SCP. It automatically removes extra white space.

Inheritance of SCPs in the OU hierarchy

For a detailed explanation of how SCP inheritance works, see Inheritance for service control
policies

SCP effects on permissions

SCPs are similar to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permission policies and use
almost the same syntax. However, an SCP never grants permissions. Instead, SCPs are JSON
policies that specify the maximum permissions for the affected accounts. For more information,
see Policy Evaluation Logic in the IAM User Guide.

 SCPs affect only IAM users and roles that are managed by accounts that are part of the
organization. SCPs don't affect resource-based policies directly. They also don't affect
users or roles from accounts outside the organization. For example, consider an Amazon
S3 bucket that's owned by account A in an organization. The bucket policy (a resource-
based policy) grants access to users from account B outside the organization. Account A
has an SCP attached. That SCP doesn't apply to those outside users in account B. The
SCP applies only to users that are managed by account A in the organization.
 An SCP restricts permissions for IAM users and roles in member accounts, including the
member account's root user. Any account has only those permissions permitted by every
parent above it. If a permission is blocked at any level above the account, either
implicitly (by not being included in an Allow policy statement) or explicitly (by being
included in a Deny policy statement), a user or role in the affected account can't use that

11
 permission, even if the account administrator attaches the AdministratorAccess IAM
policy with */* permissions to the user.
 SCPs affect only member accounts in the organization. They have no effect on users or
roles in the management account.
 Users and roles must still be granted permissions with appropriate IAM permission
policies. A user without any IAM permission policies has no access, even if the
applicable SCPs allow all services and all actions.
 If a user or role has an IAM permission policy that grants access to an action that is also
allowed by the applicable SCPs, the user or role can perform that action.
 If a user or role has an IAM permission policy that grants access to an action that is either
not allowed or explicitly denied by the applicable SCPs, the user or role can't perform
that action.
 SCPs affect all users and roles in attached accounts, including the root user. The only
exceptions are those described in Tasks and entities not restricted by SCPs.
 SCPs do not affect any service-linked role. Service-linked roles enable other AWS
services to integrate with AWS Organizations and can't be restricted by SCPs.
 When you disable the SCP policy type in a root, all SCPs are automatically detached
from all AWS Organizations entities in that root. AWS Organizations entities include
organizational units, organizations, and accounts. If you reenable SCPs in a root, that root
reverts to only the default FullAWSAccess policy automatically attached to all entities in
the root. Any attachments of SCPs to AWS Organizations entities from before SCPs were
disabled are lost and aren't automatically recoverable, although you can manually reattach
them.
 If both a permissions boundary (an advanced IAM feature) and an SCP are present, then
the boundary, the SCP, and the identity-based policy must all allow the action.

Using access data to improve SCPs

When signed in with management account credentials, you can view service last accessed data
for an AWS Organizations entity or policy in the AWS Organizations section of the IAM
console. You can also use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or AWS API in IAM
to retrieve service last accessed data. This data includes information about which allowed
services that the IAM users and roles in an AWS Organizations account last attempted to access
and when. You can use this information to identify unused permissions so that you can refine
your SCPs to better adhere to the principle of least privilege.

For example, you might have a deny list SCP that prohibits access to three AWS services. All
services that aren't listed in the SCP's Deny statement are allowed. The service last accessed data
in IAM tells you which AWS services are allowed by the SCP but are never used. With that
information, you can update the SCP to deny access to services that you don't need.

For more information, see the following topics in the IAM User Guide:

 Viewing Organizations Service Last Accessed Data for Organizations

 Using Data to Refine Permissions for an Organizational Unit

12
 What is AWS Pricing Calculator?
AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of
your use cases on AWS. You can model your solutions before building them, explore the price
points and calculations behind your estimate, and find the available instance types and contract
terms that meet your needs.
This enables you to make informed decisions about using AWS. You can plan your AWS costs
and usage or price out setting up a new set of instances and services.
AWS Pricing Calculator is useful both for people who have never used AWS and for users who
want to reorganize or expand their AWS usage. You don't need any experience with the cloud or
AWS to use AWS Pricing Calculator.
Accessing AWS Pricing Calculator
AWS Pricing Calculator provides only a console interface at https://calculator.aws/#/. It doesn't
provide an API.
Prerequisites for using AWS Pricing Calculator
You don't need an AWS account or in-depth knowledge of AWS to use AWS Pricing Calculator.
For best results, we suggest that you have a plan for how you want to use AWS before starting
your estimate. For example, decide whether you want to break out your estimate by cost center,
by product that you run on AWS, or by regional stacks.

AWS Pricing Calculator Regions

You can use AWS Pricing Calculator to generate monthly cost estimates for all Regions
supported by your preferred service. For information about each service's available Regions, see
the corresponding service user guide documentation.
Pricing for AWS Pricing Calculator
AWS Pricing Calculator is free for use. It provides an estimate of your AWS fees and charges,
but the estimate doesn't include any taxes that might apply to the fees and charges. AWS Pricing
Calculator provides pricing details for your information only. If the prices on the marketing page
are different from the prices that AWS Pricing Calculator uses, AWS honors the prices from the
marketing pages. For more information about AWS service pricing, see Cloud Services Pricing.
The prices that AWS Pricing Calculator uses for the estimates come from the AWS Price List
API. For more information about the AWS Price List API, see Using the AWS Price List API in
the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide.
Understand the fundamentals of pricing
There are three fundamental drivers of cost with AWS: compute, storage, and outbound data
transfer.
These characteristics vary somewhat, depending on the AWS product and pricing model you
choose. In most cases, there is no charge for inbound data transfer or for data transfer between
other AWS services within the same Region.

13
There are some exceptions, so be sure to verify data transfer rates before beginning. Outbound
data transfer is aggregated across services and then charged at the outbound data transfer rate.
This charge appears on the monthly statement as AWS Data Transfer Out. The more data
you transfer, the less you pay per GB. For compute resources, you pay hourly from the
time you launch a resource until the time you terminate it, unless you have made a reservation
for which the cost is agreed upon beforehand. For data storage and transfer, you typically pay per
GB.
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) provide a significant discount (up to 72%) compared to
On-Demand pricing and provide a capacity reservation when used in a specific Availability
Zone. To learn how to buy an RI, visit the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Getting Started page.

For certain services like Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, you can invest in reserved capacity.
With Reserved Instances, you can save up to 75% over equivalent on-demand capacity.
Reserved Instances are available in 3 options – All up-front (AURI), partial up-front
(PURI) or no upfront payments (NURI).

When you buy Reserved Instances, the larger the upfront payment, the greater the discount. To
maximize your savings, you can pay all up-front and receive the largest discount. Partial up-front
RI's offer lower discounts but give you the option to spend less up front. Lastly, you can choose
to spend nothing up front and receive a smaller discount, but allowing you to free up capital to
spend in other projects.

By using reserved capacity, your organization can minimize risks, more predictably manage
budgets, and comply with policies that require longer-term commitments.

How do RIs Work?

EC2 RIs provide a discounted hourly explorerrate and an optional capacity reservation for EC2
instances. AWS Billing automatically applies your RI’s discounted rate when attributes of EC2
instance usage match attributes of an active RI.
If an Availability Zone is specified, EC2 reserves capacity matching the attributes of the RI. The
capacity reservation of an RI is automatically utilized by running instances matching these
attributes.
You can also choose to forego the capacity reservation and purchase an RI that is scoped to a
region. RIs that are scoped to a region automatically apply the RI’s discount to instance usage
across AZs and instance sizes in a region, making it easier for you to take advantage of the RI’s
discounted rate.

 What is AWS Cost Management?

 Welcome to the AWS Cost Management User Guide.

14
  The AWS Cost Management console has features that you can use for budgeting and
forecasting costs and methods for you to optimize your pricing to reduce your overall
AWS bill.
 The AWS Cost Management console is integrated closely with the Billing console.
Using both together, you can manage your costs in a holistic manner. You can use
Billing console resources to manage your ongoing payments, and AWS Cost
Management console resources to optimize your future costs. For information about
AWS resources to understand, pay, or organize your AWS bills, see the AWS Billing
User Guide.

Features of AWS Cost Management

AWS Cost Explorer

Use case: Report, Forecast, Inspect

AWS Cost Explorer is a feature that you can use to visualize your cost data for
further analysis. Using it, you can filter graphs by several different values. This includes
Availability Zone, AWS service, and AWS Region, It also includes other specifics such
as custom cost allocation tag, Amazon EC2 instance type, and purchase option. If you use
consolidated billing, you can also filter by member account. In addition, you can see a
forecast of future costs based on your historical cost data.

Documentation: Analyzing your costs with AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Budgets

Use case: Forecast, Inspect

AWS Budgets tracks your AWS usage and costs. AWS Budgets uses the cost
visualization that's provided by AWS Cost Explorer to show the status of your budgets.
This provides forecasts of your estimated costs and tracks your AWS usage, including
your AWS Free Tier usage. You can also use AWS Budgets to create Amazon Simple
Notification Service (Amazon SNS) notifications for when you exceed your budgeted
amounts, or when your estimated costs exceed your budgets.

Documentation: Managing your costs with AWS Budgets

AWS Cost and Usage Reports

The AWS Cost and Usage Reports (AWS CUR) contains the most comprehensive set
of cost and usage data available. You can use Cost and Usage Reports to publish your
AWS billing reports to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket that you
own. You can receive reports that break down your costs by the hour, day, or month, by
product or product resource, or by tags that you define yourself. AWS updates the report
in your bucket once a day in comma-separated value (CSV) format. You can view the

15
 reports using spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel or Apache OpenOffice Calc,
or access them from an application using the Amazon S3 API.

AWS Cost and Usage Reports tracks your AWS usage and provides estimated charges
associated with your account. Each report contains line items for each unique
combination of AWS products, usage type, and operation that you use in your AWS
account. You can customize the AWS Cost and Usage Reports to aggregate the
information either by the hour, day, or month.

AWS Cost and Usage Reports can do the following:

 Deliver report files to your Amazon S3 bucket

 Update the report up to three times a day
 Create, retrieve, and delete your reports using the AWS CUR API Reference

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

Use case: Control

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a feature that uses machine learning to continuously
monitor your cost and usage to detect unusual spends. You can receive alerts individually
in aggregated reports, and receive alerts in an email or an Amazon SNS topic. AWS Cost
Anomaly Detection is beneficial to analyze and determine the root cause of the anomaly,
and identify the factor that is driving the cost increase.

Documentation: Detecting unusual spend with AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

Rightsizing Recommendations

Use case: Control

Rightsizing recommendations is a feature that reviews your historical Amazon EC2 usage
for the past 14 days to identify opportunities for greater cost and usage efficiency. The
feature identifies cost saving opportunities by downsizing or terminating instances in
Amazon EC2.

Documentation: Accessing Reserved Instance Recommendations

Savings Plans

Use case: Purchase

Savings Plans offers a flexible pricing model that provides savings on AWS usage.
Savings Plans provide savings beyond On-Demand rates in exchange for a commitment
of using a specified amount of compute power (measured every hour) for a one or three

16
 year period. You can manage your plans by using recommendations, performance
reporting, and budget alerts in AWS Cost Explorer.

Documentation: What is Savings Plans

AWS Support plans

AWS Support offers five support plans:

 Basic
 Developer
 Business
 Enterprise On-Ramp
 Enterprise

Basic Support offers support for account and billing questions and service quota increases. The
other plans offer a number of technical support cases with pay-by-the-month pricing and no
long-term contracts.

All AWS customers automatically have 24/7 access to these features of Basic Support:

 One-on-one responses to account and billing questions

17
  Support forums
 Service health checks
 Documentation, technical papers, and best practice guides

Customers with a Developer Support plan have access to these additional features:

 Best practice guidance

 Client-side diagnostic tools
 Building-block architecture support: guidance on how to use AWS products, features,
and services together
 Supports an unlimited number of support cases that can be opened by one primary
contact, which is the AWS account root user.

In addition, customers with a Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support plan

have access to these features:

 Use-case guidance – What AWS products, features, and services to use to best support
your specific needs.
 AWS Trusted Advisor – A feature of AWS Support, which inspects customer
environments and identifies opportunities to save money, close security gaps, and
improve system reliability and performance. You can access all Trusted Advisor
checks.
 The AWS Support API to interact with Support Center and Trusted Advisor. You can use
the AWS Support API to automate support case management and Trusted Advisor
operations.
 Third-party software support – Help with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2) instance operating systems and configuration. Also, help with the performance of
the most popular third-party software components on AWS. Third-party software support
isn't available for customers on Basic or Developer Support plans.
 Supports an unlimited number of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users
who can open technical support cases.

In addition, customers with an Enterprise On-Ramp or Enterprise Support plan have access
to these features:

 Application architecture guidance – Consultative guidance on how services fit together to

meet your specific use case, workload, or application.
 Infrastructure event management – Short-term engagement with AWS Support to get a
deep understanding of your use case. After analysis, provide architectural and scaling
guidance for an event.
 Technical account manager – Work with a technical account manager (TAM) for
your specific use cases and applications.
 White-glove case routing.
 Management business reviews.

18
For more information about features and pricing for each support plan, see AWS Support and
Compare AWS Support plans. Some features, such as 24/7 phone and chat support, aren't available in all
languages. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/

19