SAA-C03 Question 526
Select 3A company uses AWS Organizations and has consolidated billing enabled for multiple AWS accounts. The finance team wants to track expenses by project across all accounts. Which combination of AWS cost management features can help the finance team achieve this goal?
- A
Enable cost allocation tags and apply them to AWS resources.
- B
Use the AWS Budgets service to create project-specific budgets.
- C
Use linked accounts to directly allocate specific costs to individual projects.
- D
Generate AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) with grouping by cost allocation tags.
- E
Enable Reserved Instances (RIs) across all accounts for consistent cost reporting.
- F
Create an organization-wide tag policy to enforce consistent tagging.
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Correct answers: A, D, F
Explanation
To track expenses by project across multiple AWS accounts, the finance team can enable cost allocation tags to categorize resources, generate AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) to analyze costs grouped by these tags, and enforce consistent tagging using an organization-wide tag policy. These features work together to provide detailed cost insights and ensure consistency across accounts.
- A. Correct.
Cost allocation tags are used to assign metadata to AWS resources that can help categorize and track costs by specific projects, making this a correct option.
- B. Incorrect.
While AWS Budgets can help monitor and notify based on predefined spend thresholds, it does not directly assist with tracking expenses by project, so this option is incorrect.
- C. Incorrect.
Linked accounts in AWS Organizations enable consolidated billing but do not inherently provide a mechanism to allocate costs to individual projects, so this option is incorrect.
- D. Correct.
The AWS Cost and Usage Report provides detailed cost and usage data and can be grouped by cost allocation tags, making it a correct option.
- E. Incorrect.
Reserved Instances can reduce costs but are not related to tracking expenses by projects, so this option is incorrect.
- F. Correct.
An organization-wide tag policy ensures consistent tagging across all accounts, which is essential for effective cost allocation, making this a correct option.