MLA-C01 Question 420
Select 3You are an AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer managing a machine learning workload hosted on Amazon SageMaker. Your team has noticed an unexpected increase in costs associated with your SageMaker training jobs and endpoints. You need to identify the root cause and find opportunities to optimize costs. Which tools or services can help you analyze and reduce these expenses?
- A
AWS Cost Explorer
- B
AWS Billing and Cost Management
- C
Amazon CloudWatch
- D
AWS Trusted Advisor
- E
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
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Correct answers: A, B, D
Explanation
To analyze and reduce costs for Amazon SageMaker workloads, you can use AWS Cost Explorer to identify cost trends and breakdowns, AWS Billing and Cost Management to track and manage your spending, and AWS Trusted Advisor to get specific cost optimization recommendations. These tools work together to provide actionable insights into cost management. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Personal Health Dashboard are valuable for other purposes, such as monitoring and service health, but are not designed for cost analysis.
- A. Correct.
AWS Cost Explorer allows you to visualize, understand, and manage your costs and usage over time. It provides detailed insights into cost trends, including those related to SageMaker workloads.
- B. Correct.
AWS Billing and Cost Management helps you understand your overall AWS costs and provides tools such as budgets to manage expenses, making it a key resource for identifying cost increases.
- C. Incorrect.
Amazon CloudWatch is primarily used for monitoring and operational insights, such as tracking application performance and resource utilization. While useful for operational metrics, it is not a dedicated cost analysis tool.
- D. Correct.
AWS Trusted Advisor provides real-time guidance to help optimize your AWS environment, including cost optimization recommendations relevant to SageMaker and other services.
- E. Incorrect.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance for AWS service disruptions or maintenance events but does not offer cost analysis or optimization capabilities.