SAP-C02 Question 131
Select 2A financial analyst at your company wants to track and optimize AWS costs for a new project consisting of multiple AWS accounts under a single organization in AWS Organizations. The analyst needs to monitor spending trends, forecast future usage, and set alerts when costs exceed a defined threshold. As a Solutions Architect, which combination of AWS cost and usage monitoring tools should you recommend?
- A
AWS Cost Explorer to analyze spending trends and forecast costs
- B
AWS Budgets to create cost and usage alerts
- C
AWS Trusted Advisor to provide detailed cost and usage reports
- D
AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate costs for new services
- E
Amazon CloudWatch to monitor cost anomalies in near real-time
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Correct answers: A, B
Explanation
To track spending trends, forecast usage, and set cost alerts, AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets are the appropriate tools. Cost Explorer provides the necessary insights into historical and forecasted costs, while Budgets allows you to create alerts for cost thresholds. Trusted Advisor, Pricing Calculator, and CloudWatch do not fulfill all aspects of the requirements.
- A. Correct.
AWS Cost Explorer is designed to analyze historical spending trends and forecast future costs, making it an ideal choice for tracking spending trends and predicting future usage.
- B. Correct.
AWS Budgets allows you to define cost and usage thresholds and sends notifications when these thresholds are breached, which aligns with the requirement to set alerts for cost control.
- C. Incorrect.
AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations for cost optimization but does not offer detailed cost and usage reports or tools to analyze trends or set alerts.
- D. Incorrect.
AWS Pricing Calculator is a tool for estimating costs before deploying services, not for monitoring ongoing costs or usage.
- E. Incorrect.
Amazon CloudWatch is primarily used for monitoring application and system performance metrics, not for detailed cost analysis or forecasting.