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Learn about AWS costs and billing
With AWS, you pay monthly for what you use. Pricing for each service is listed on the the AWS website, rates are typically charged per minute or per quantity used each month. Use the the AWS Pricing Calculator to to learn about cost before you submit your request and start to use your new account. DLT DLT Solutions is your point of contact for all AWS billing questions and can provide a cost estimate for your project.
After requesting an your AWS account is created, a representative from DLT Solutions will contact you to discuss payment. DLT offers two options:
Credit Card (PCard): You provide PCard information to DLT when your AWS account is created. Your PCard will be charged monthly for AWS services, and you
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will be responsible for reconciling charges per WVU PCard reconciliation process.
Up-front Payment: DLT will provide a quote based on estimated annual spend. You can
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use a PCard to pay the quote if the amount is under PCard limit. Or, you can have a Purchase Order issued through Mountaineer Marketplace. With up-front payment
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, DLT establishes a pool of funds for your account and monthly charges are deducted from that pool.
For example, DLT provided a quote for $12,000 based on your estimated annual usage and you have issued a PO to DLT for that quote. Your charges for this month are $1,000. The $1,000 will be deducted from the $12,000 and you will have $11,000 in remaining funds. When the remaining balance in the up-front payment is close to being depleted, DLT will provide a new quote so you can issue a new PO.
With either payment option, DLT will send you a monthly statement of your charges. If you are using up-front payment, the email will also include your remaining balance.
You can view your usage information on the AWS Billing Console and have daily/weekly billing summaries emailed to you. You can use use AWS Budgets to to track your AWS costs. You can set a monthly cost budget with budget with a fixed target amount to track all costs associated with your account, or with a variable target amount with each subsequent month growing the budget target by 5 percent each month. You can choose to be alerted for both actual (after accruing) and forecasted (before accruing spends). View Amazon's Creating a Budget page for details and instructions.
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How do I request an AWS account after my consultation?
Visit the Amazon Web Services Account Request page and click Submit a Ticket. You may be prompted to sign in with your WVU Login credentials.
Provide the following information:
Project name/account purpose
Technical Contact (name, email address, phone number): This is a user that will be the primary owner of the account with administrator access.
Procurement Contact (name, email address, phone number): This is a user that DLT Solutions can contact for billing information and questions.
Sensitive Data Classification Information: Review the Sensitive Data Practices and Storage FAQ article and then select either Yes if your data is sensitive, or No, if it is not.
DLT Support Requested: Optional support is strongly encouraged.
Data Egress Waiver Eligibility: Review the explanation for the data egress waiver and then indicate whether the account is eligible to participate. This means that the workload you anticipate running on this account is not an excluded workload (MOOC, media streaming, or web media hosting) and/or that you do not anticipate your Data Egress charges to exceed 20% of your monthly utilization charges.
Read the AWS Account Agreement thoroughly and then select Yes to agree.
Click Request.
ITS Software Licensing will review the request and confirm that a Purchase Request has been submitted.
WVU Information Security (ISS) will review the request to determine whether the account should be provisioned by ITS or DLT Solutions.
Note: ISS may determine the account be provisioned outside of ITS' oversight to meet compliance requirements. In these cases, DLT will create a standalone AWS account. The customer will maintain root account credentials and work directly with DLT for account provisioning and access.Once Information Security approves the account to be provisioned by ITS, the request is sent to Cloud and Virtualization Services.
A representative from DLT Solutions will contact you for funding information. DLT Solutions is our partner for Amazon Web Services and your point of contact for all AWS billing questions. Options are monthly PCard charge or up-front payment.
Understand the shared responsibility model for information security and compliance.
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Visit the Amazon Web Services Account Request page and click AWS Account Request. You may be prompted to sign in with your WVU Login credentials.
Provide the information required in the boxes with the red asterisks (*) next to them.
Note: To obtain your AWS Account ID for the request, sign into your AWS account and click your name in the top-right navigation pane. Your AWS ID is the 12-digit number under the Account Settings section.Read the AWS Closure Agreement thoroughly and select Yes to agree.
Click Request.
Where can I find training and support?
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