SAA-C03 Question 437
Select 2A company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. They want to allocate costs for specific projects across accounts and generate detailed billing reports for each project. Which combination of AWS features should they use to achieve this?
- A
Enable and use Cost Allocation Tags to assign project-specific tags to resources.
- B
Use AWS Cost Explorer to create custom dashboards for project-based cost analysis.
- C
Enable Consolidated Billing in AWS Organizations to manage costs across all accounts.
- D
Use Reserved Instance Sharing to allocate costs for reserved resources across accounts.
- E
Activate the AWS Budgets feature to automatically allocate costs to specific projects.
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Correct answers: A, C
Explanation
To allocate costs for projects across multiple accounts, you need both Cost Allocation Tags and Consolidated Billing. Cost Allocation Tags allow you to tag resources with project-specific metadata, while Consolidated Billing provides a unified view of costs across accounts managed in AWS Organizations, enabling efficient cost tracking and reporting for specific projects.
- A. Correct.
Correct. Cost Allocation Tags allow you to assign metadata (such as project names) to resources, enabling detailed cost tracking and reporting for specific projects.
- B. Incorrect.
Incorrect. AWS Cost Explorer is used for analyzing and visualizing historical cost data but does not directly help in allocating costs to projects or accounts.
- C. Correct.
Correct. Consolidated Billing within AWS Organizations allows for centralized management of costs and helps in combining usage data across accounts, which is essential when allocating costs for projects spanning multiple accounts.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Reserved Instance Sharing allows accounts in an organization to share reserved capacity, but it does not help in allocating costs for specific projects.
- E. Incorrect.
Incorrect. AWS Budgets is used to monitor and alert on cost or usage thresholds but does not allocate costs to projects.