1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,170 ‫So, let's talk about Consolidated Billing 2 00:00:02,170 --> 00:00:04,120 ‫for AWS Organization. 3 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:05,330 ‫So, when you enable this setting, 4 00:00:05,330 --> 00:00:06,820 ‫this provides you two things. 5 00:00:06,820 --> 00:00:08,890 ‫Number one, and I'll describe it in a second. 6 00:00:08,890 --> 00:00:10,440 ‫It gives you the combined usage, 7 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,530 ‫that means that you can combine all the usage 8 00:00:12,530 --> 00:00:14,940 ‫of all accounts together to do two things. 9 00:00:14,940 --> 00:00:18,080 ‫Number one, you're going to share the volume pricing. 10 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:19,760 ‫For example, in Amazon history, 11 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,450 ‫if you go over maybe five terabytes of data, 12 00:00:22,450 --> 00:00:24,540 ‫then the next service is going to be cheaper. 13 00:00:24,540 --> 00:00:26,080 ‫Well, obviously if you combine 14 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:27,090 ‫all your accounts together, 15 00:00:27,090 --> 00:00:29,690 ‫if every account is using one terabyte of data 16 00:00:29,690 --> 00:00:30,950 ‫and you have six accounts, 17 00:00:30,950 --> 00:00:33,250 ‫then altogether they will be benefiting 18 00:00:33,250 --> 00:00:34,330 ‫from the discount pricing. 19 00:00:34,330 --> 00:00:36,330 ‫So, the combined usage is very important, 20 00:00:36,330 --> 00:00:37,580 ‫and also, 21 00:00:37,580 --> 00:00:39,240 ‫there are some Reserved Instances 22 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,590 ‫or Savings Plan discounts on one account. 23 00:00:41,590 --> 00:00:43,140 ‫They can be shared across all accounts 24 00:00:43,140 --> 00:00:45,220 ‫again to maximize the discounts 25 00:00:45,220 --> 00:00:46,180 ‫and the savings, 26 00:00:46,180 --> 00:00:47,800 ‫and I will show you how in a second. 27 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,820 ‫The other advantage that it gives you, 28 00:00:49,820 --> 00:00:50,653 ‫One Bill. 29 00:00:50,653 --> 00:00:52,610 ‫So, get one bill for all the accounts 30 00:00:52,610 --> 00:00:53,630 ‫in the organization, 31 00:00:53,630 --> 00:00:54,900 ‫which really can help 32 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:56,690 ‫your accounting departments 33 00:00:56,690 --> 00:00:58,620 ‫and allow you not to be restricted 34 00:00:58,620 --> 00:01:01,400 ‫in how many accounts you can create for AWS. 35 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,170 ‫So, let's take an example of 36 00:01:03,170 --> 00:01:04,910 ‫Reserved Instance Sharing. 37 00:01:04,910 --> 00:01:06,757 ‫So we have an organization with two accounts 38 00:01:06,757 --> 00:01:08,200 ‫and in the first one, account A, 39 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,350 ‫there is no Reserved Instances, 40 00:01:10,350 --> 00:01:11,210 ‫and account B, 41 00:01:11,210 --> 00:01:13,600 ‫there are five reserved EC2 instances. 42 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,410 ‫Now, let's assume that we are within one AZ 43 00:01:15,410 --> 00:01:18,300 ‫because Reserve Instances are at the AZ level 44 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:20,570 ‫and we have nine EC2 instances. 45 00:01:20,570 --> 00:01:21,403 ‫As you can see, 46 00:01:21,403 --> 00:01:23,170 ‫three are launched in account B, 47 00:01:23,170 --> 00:01:25,550 ‫and six are launched in account A. 48 00:01:25,550 --> 00:01:27,360 ‫Now, what is going to happen? 49 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:28,193 ‫Well, 50 00:01:28,193 --> 00:01:31,630 ‫if we have five EC2 Reserved Instances on account B, 51 00:01:31,630 --> 00:01:33,610 ‫then the three EC2 instances 52 00:01:33,610 --> 00:01:34,890 ‫obviously are going to be reserved, 53 00:01:34,890 --> 00:01:37,910 ‫but because we have enabled Reserved Instances sharing, 54 00:01:37,910 --> 00:01:40,490 ‫then two instances in account A 55 00:01:40,490 --> 00:01:43,200 ‫will also benefit from Reserved Instances pricing 56 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,270 ‫and therefore rebuking cost savings. 57 00:01:45,270 --> 00:01:46,650 ‫So, at the end of the day, 58 00:01:46,650 --> 00:01:48,140 ‫we have five Reserved Instances 59 00:01:48,140 --> 00:01:50,880 ‫and four not Reserved Instances in this use case 60 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:52,930 ‫even though Susan in account B 61 00:01:52,930 --> 00:01:54,990 ‫only launched three EC2 instances 62 00:01:54,990 --> 00:01:56,950 ‫out of the five that were reserved. 63 00:01:56,950 --> 00:01:57,783 ‫Okay? 64 00:01:57,783 --> 00:01:59,020 ‫So, you really need to understand this 65 00:01:59,020 --> 00:02:02,660 ‫because the exam will test you on the shared volume pricing, 66 00:02:02,660 --> 00:02:04,030 ‫so shared volume discounts 67 00:02:04,030 --> 00:02:06,960 ‫and how to share and what it means 68 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,678 ‫to share Reserved Instances, 69 00:02:08,678 --> 00:02:12,090 ‫and finally, the Reserved Instances discount sharing 70 00:02:12,090 --> 00:02:14,960 ‫can be turned off for any accounts in the organization, 71 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,960 ‫including the management accounts, 72 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:18,910 ‫the main accounts of your organization. 73 00:02:18,910 --> 00:02:19,743 ‫Okay. 74 00:02:19,743 --> 00:02:20,576 ‫That's it for this lecture. 75 00:02:20,576 --> 00:02:21,409 ‫I hope you liked it, 76 00:02:21,409 --> 00:02:22,940 ‫and I will see you in the next lecture.