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Answers to questions about AWS that we often see at Cornell.


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AWS Blended Pricing

Costs

What is the cost of the the Cornell standard AWS configuration?

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Direct billing from AWS to KFS is now enabled. We have a default KFS account to bill for charges in each AWS account. If you'd like to target the charges for specific AWS resources to specific KFS accounts, you can "Cost Center" tags to your AWS resources. See AWS Standard Tagging for details.

When I purchase a reserved EC2 instance with upfront payment, how is billing handled for that?

How do I buy EC2 Reserved Instances?

As of June 2022, individual Cornell AWS accounts cannot buy Reserved Instances or Savings Plans. Cornell has a program that purchases those centrally. See If your AWS account is part of the AWS consolidated billing scheme, the purchase of a reserved instance triggers an invoice from AWS to Cornell. Please send details of the purchase and the Cornell account to be charged to cloud-support@cornell.edu, and we will ensure that the invoice is charged appropriately.

Licensing

Does the Cornell Microsoft Agreement cover Microsoft software in AWS?

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