* You are responsible for your AWS usage. Normally using resources from AWS costs money. AWS costs are very competitive, but their resources are not free. In an AWS Educate Academy Learner Lab you get a 100$ credit which will be more than enough to cover all your resources until the end of the courseif you're not reckless.** {{Admon/important|You are responsible for your AWS usage!|If you run out of credits: you will have to find another way to finance completing the required hands-on parts of OPS345.}} Take this as an opportunity during the course OPS345 to learn what costs how much money, and make sure you don't use up your 100$ until you are done all your work in the coursecloud. The skills of managing cloud costs are very valuable.** Both Unfortunately AWS Academy doesn't make it easy for you. On the unrestricted AWS you have access to AWS Budgets, Amazon CloudWatch Billing Alarms, and other tools to help you monitor and control your costs. But due to the way AWS Academy was designed: you won't have access to those tools. That's in return for the Learner Lab and free 100$, which most students don't complain about. Even without the real budget restrictions in AWS figuring out Academy: AWS costs are not easy to manage. Here are some examples of what you'll run into: * Resources that say "Free" on the label, but will only be free in a specific configuration.* Resources that are free unless you exceed some threshold of usage (CPU usage, bandwidth, etc.)* Resources that cost money only when they are '''not''' used. That was spent on is surprisingly difficult after itnot a typo.* And the most common of all: resources that don's already spentt have a cost listed next to them at all.  So in order to learn anything about costs on AWS: pay attention whenever you see a note about the cost of anything, even though it will be a distraction from what you're trying to accomplish at that time.** You cannot use AWS Budgets in your AWS Learning LabThere are many places where such notes are scattered.** You could try to figure out how to use the Amazon CloudWatch billing alarms* Always keep cost in the back of your mind when doing /''anything/ '' on AWS. Then hopefully you'll get a general idea, so that when you're done with OPS345 you can have an intelligent conversation about it.