CLF-C02 Question 299
Select 2Your company has recently started using AWS services, and as the cloud administrator, you want to ensure that the organization stays within its budget while monitoring cost trends. Which AWS tools can you use to achieve this?
- A
AWS Cost Explorer
- B
AWS Trusted Advisor
- C
AWS Budgets
- D
Amazon CloudWatch
- E
AWS Pricing Calculator
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Correct answers: A, C
Explanation
To manage costs effectively, AWS provides tools like AWS Cost Explorer, which helps you analyze and visualize cost trends, and AWS Budgets, which allows you to set and monitor budget thresholds. While other tools like AWS Trusted Advisor and AWS Pricing Calculator are helpful in different contexts, they are not specifically designed for real-time cost and budget management.
- A. Correct.
AWS Cost Explorer allows you to visualize, analyze, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time, making it an ideal tool for monitoring cost trends.
- B. Incorrect.
AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations for optimizing AWS resources and improving cost-efficiency, but it is not specifically designed for cost monitoring or budgeting.
- C. Correct.
AWS Budgets enables you to set custom cost and usage budgets and receive alerts when you exceed them, making it a key tool for staying within your organization's budget.
- D. Incorrect.
Amazon CloudWatch is primarily used for monitoring performance and logs of AWS resources, not for cost and budget management.
- E. Incorrect.
AWS Pricing Calculator is used for estimating the cost of AWS services before using them, but it does not help with ongoing cost monitoring or budget enforcement.