Key Concepts
- Pay-as-you-go
- Save when you commit
- savings plans offer savings over on-demand prices when you commit to a 1-year or 3-year plan.
- Pay less by using more
Three Drivers of Cost with AWS
- Compute
- Storage
- Outbound Data Transfer
- Example: If a static website is hosted in S3 and someone accesses objects from that bucket, some data is being transferred out of AWS and would incur charges.