CLF-C02 Question 300
Select 3Your organization wants to track and manage its AWS costs for multiple accounts within an organization. You need to set up notifications when spending exceeds a defined threshold, analyze historical cost data to identify trends, and ensure that specific business units are billed separately based on usage. Which combination of AWS services would best meet these requirements?
- A
AWS Budgets
- B
AWS Cost Explorer
- C
AWS Billing Conductor
- D
AWS Savings Plans
- E
AWS Trusted Advisor
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Correct answers: A, B, C
Explanation
To meet the requirements of tracking and managing costs with notifications, analyzing historical cost data, and ensuring business units are billed separately, AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Explorer, and AWS Billing Conductor work together effectively. AWS Budgets allows you to set spending thresholds and receive alerts, AWS Cost Explorer provides insights into spending trends, and AWS Billing Conductor enables custom billing for specific business units.
- A. Correct.
AWS Budgets allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets and receive alerts when thresholds are exceeded. This is useful for tracking and managing costs.
- B. Correct.
AWS Cost Explorer helps analyze historical cost and usage data, enabling you to identify spending patterns and trends.
- C. Correct.
AWS Billing Conductor is used to customize billing and invoicing for specific business units or accounts within an organization.
- D. Incorrect.
AWS Savings Plans is designed for committing to consistent usage to reduce costs, but it is not suitable for setting notifications or analyzing costs across multiple accounts.
- E. Incorrect.
AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations for improving security, performance, and cost efficiency, but it does not handle cost tracking, notifications, or custom billing.