You are an AWS administrator. Recently, you started to use various AWS services in AWS Systems Manager to maintain over 20 EC2 and on-premises instances. In the past month, the AWS bill has increased by about 10% than before. The company’s accountant asked you the potential cause of this. For the AWS Systems Manager services, which ones may bring additional charges? (Select 3.)

Answer options:

A.On-Premises Instance Management
B.Run Command in Systems Manager
C.Patch Manager
D.Advanced Parameter Store
E.Systems Manager Automation

Correct Answer – A, D, and E
For the services provided by AWS Systems Manager, most of them are free without extra cost. However, there are still some priced features when used. For the details, please refer to https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/pricing/ on AWS Systems Manager Pricing.
Option A is CORRECT: Because for on-premises Instance Management, the advanced instances are priced on a pay-as-you-go basis:
Option B is incorrect: Because Run Command is free. Check the above link.
Option C is incorrect: Because Patch Manager automates the process of patching managed instances, which is a free service.
Option D is CORRECT: Parameter Store is a secure place to store parameters or secrets. When you create advanced parameters, you are charged based on the number of advanced parameters stored each month and per API interaction.
Please refer the following link
https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/pricing/
Option E is CORRECT: The Automation pricing is as below.