Why This Cheat Sheet Matters for CLF-C02
This cheat sheet covers the most important AWS Billing and Cost Management concepts tested on the CLF-C02 (AWS Cloud Practitioner) certification exam. It contains 3 sections with 13 key points that you should memorize before exam day. Know the AWS pricing philosophy, Free Tier, pay-as-you-go, consolidated billing, billing dashboard, invoices, payment methods, and cost allocation tags. Use this as a quick-reference guide during your final review sessions.
3Sections
13Key Points
Pricing Basics
- AWS pricing follows pay-as-you-go for most services.
- The AWS Free Tier includes free trials, 12-month offers, and always-free offers.
- Pricing varies by service, Region, usage dimension, and commitment model.
- The AWS Pricing Calculator estimates architecture cost before deployment.
Cost Tools
- Cost Explorer analyzes historical spend and forecasts future spend.
- AWS Budgets sends alerts when cost or usage crosses thresholds.
- Cost and Usage Reports provide the most detailed billing data.
- Cost allocation tags help categorize spend by project, team, or environment.
- AWS Organizations supports consolidated billing across accounts.
Discount Options
- Savings Plans discount eligible compute usage in exchange for a spend commitment.
- Reserved Instances discount specific EC2, RDS, and other reserved capacity use cases.
- Spot Instances use spare EC2 capacity and can be interrupted.
- S3 lifecycle policies can lower storage cost by moving data to cheaper classes.
Practice Pricing & Billing Questions
Put your knowledge to the test with practice questions.