SAA-C03 Question 527
Select 3Your company uses AWS Organizations to manage multiple AWS accounts. The finance team has requested a detailed breakdown of costs by project across all accounts. You are tasked with implementing a solution that enables this while ensuring accurate cost tracking and minimal administrative overhead. Which of the following steps should you take?
- A
Enable cost allocation tags and ensure project-specific tags are applied to resources across all accounts.
- B
Activate the 'Consolidated Billing' feature in AWS Organizations.
- C
Create a budget for each project in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console.
- D
Use AWS Cost Explorer to filter by cost allocation tags and generate project-specific cost reports.
- E
Set up an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) and configure it to include cost allocation tags.
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Correct answers: A, D, E
Explanation
To provide a detailed breakdown of costs by project across multiple AWS accounts, you must use cost allocation tags, which allow you to label resources for granular cost tracking. These tags can then be used in AWS Cost Explorer for generating project-specific cost reports. Additionally, configuring the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) ensures comprehensive cost data is available for analysis. Consolidated Billing and budgets are useful tools but do not directly address the requirement to provide project-specific cost breakdowns.
- A. Correct.
Enabling cost allocation tags and applying them to resources ensures that costs can be tracked at a granular level, such as by project. This is a critical step for accurate cost analysis.
- B. Incorrect.
Consolidated Billing is automatically enabled when using AWS Organizations and is not a step you need to take manually. While it helps aggregate billing across accounts, it does not provide project-specific breakdowns.
- C. Incorrect.
Creating budgets can help track spending but does not provide detailed cost breakdowns by project. This step is not required for the requested solution.
- D. Correct.
AWS Cost Explorer allows you to filter and analyze costs using cost allocation tags, making it a key tool for generating detailed project-specific cost reports.
- E. Correct.
The AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) provides detailed cost and usage data, including information based on cost allocation tags. This is essential for comprehensive cost tracking.