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A small business is reviewing its AWS bill after operating its infrastructure on a single AWS account for $14$ months. The business regularly utilizes several AWS services, keeping their monthly usage low. Which of the following resource configurations will continue to be covered under the AWS Free Tier?

A
A configuration consisting of $3\text{ GB}$ of Amazon S3 Standard storage
A configuration consisting of $15\text{ GB}$ of Amazon DynamoDB storage and $500{}000$ AWS Lambda requests per monthAnswer
C
A configuration consisting of $100$ hours of a $t3.\text{micro}$ Amazon EC2 instance running Linux
D
A configuration where upfront payments are applied to transition the operational expenses (OpEx) of the services into capital expenses (CapEx)

Answer

A configuration consisting of

15\text{ GB}

of Amazon DynamoDB storage and

500{}000

AWS Lambda requests per month

The configuration containing Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda requests is correct because both of these service allocations fall under the 'Always Free' category. They do not expire after 12 months, and the requested amounts (

15\text{ GB}

and

500{}000

requests) remain under the monthly free limits of

25\text{ GB}

and

1\text{ million}

requests respectively.

Step-by-Step Solution

Determine the age of the AWS account from the scenario.

The AWS account is

14

months old, which means the introductory 12-Month Free Tier period has expired.

This determines which categories of the AWS Free Tier (12-Month Free vs. Always Free) still apply to the account.

Evaluate each service in the configurations against the remaining Free Tier categories.

Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 belong to the 12-Month Free category and are no longer free. Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda belong to the Always Free category.

This allows identification of the correct, fully covered resource configuration.

Key Concept

AWS Free Tier offers are split into three categories: Always Free, 12-Month Free, and Trials. Always Free offers do not expire after the first 12 months of the account.

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