CLF-C02 Question 306
Single answerA company has multiple AWS accounts for its departments, such as Marketing, Development, and Finance. The company wants to manage billing centrally and ensure that each department can view its respective costs. Which feature of AWS Organizations can help achieve this?
- A
Enable consolidated billing and use AWS Cost Explorer to allocate costs by linked accounts.
- B
Use AWS IAM to create separate billing dashboards for each department.
- C
Create an Application Load Balancer to distribute costs across accounts.
- D
Enable consolidated billing and create Service Control Policies (SCPs) to allocate costs.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
AWS Organizations' consolidated billing allows a company to combine the usage and costs of multiple accounts into one bill, simplifying billing management. Combined with AWS Cost Explorer, it enables the allocation and analysis of costs per account, ensuring transparency and control over departmental spending.
- A. Correct.
This is correct. Consolidated billing in AWS Organizations allows the central management of billing across multiple accounts. Using AWS Cost Explorer, the company can allocate and analyze costs by linked accounts.
- B. Incorrect.
This is incorrect. While IAM helps manage access and permissions, it is not used to centrally manage billing or allocate costs.
- C. Incorrect.
This is incorrect. An Application Load Balancer is used for distributing application traffic, not for managing or allocating billing costs.
- D. Incorrect.
This is incorrect. Service Control Policies (SCPs) are used to enforce permissions across accounts, not for allocating or managing costs.