SAA-C03 Question 484
Select 2A company is using AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The finance team wants to track the monthly costs for each department and ensure that costs are accurately categorized. Which combination of AWS cost management features can help them achieve this?
- A
Enable cost allocation tags for resources and use AWS Cost Explorer to view costs by tags.
- B
Set up a consolidated billing account in AWS Organizations and review costs under the management (payer) account.
- C
Create budgets in AWS Budgets and associate them with specific AWS accounts.
- D
Use AWS Cost Anomaly Detection to categorize costs by department automatically.
- E
Enable Reserved Instance (RI) sharing in AWS Organizations to reduce overall costs.
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Correct answers: A, B
Explanation
To track costs by department, the finance team should enable cost allocation tags and use AWS Cost Explorer to analyze costs based on these tags. Consolidated billing under AWS Organizations allows a unified view of costs across multiple accounts, which is essential for accurate tracking. While AWS Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, and RI sharing are valuable cost management tools, they do not directly address the requirement of categorizing and tracking costs by department.
- A. Correct.
Correct. Cost allocation tags allow you to categorize resources by department or other criteria. AWS Cost Explorer can then analyze and view costs based on these tags.
- B. Correct.
Correct. Consolidated billing under AWS Organizations allows central management of costs, and the payer account provides a unified view of all accounts' costs.
- C. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Creating budgets in AWS Budgets is useful for monitoring and controlling costs but does not directly categorize costs by department.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is used to identify unusual spending patterns, not to categorize costs by department.
- E. Incorrect.
Incorrect. Enabling Reserved Instance sharing can optimize costs but is unrelated to categorizing costs by department or tracking costs accurately.