SAP-C02 Question 133
Select 2A company has recently migrated its workloads to AWS. The finance team is concerned about potential cost overruns and wants to implement proactive measures to monitor and control AWS spending. They require tools to forecast costs, set custom spending thresholds with alerts, and analyze historical cost data. Which combination of AWS tools should the company use to meet these requirements?
- A
AWS Budgets
- B
AWS Cost Explorer
- C
AWS Pricing Calculator
- D
AWS Trusted Advisor
- E
AWS Cost and Usage Report
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Correct answers: A, B
Explanation
To meet the company's requirements, AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Explorer are the most suitable tools. AWS Budgets enables proactive cost control by setting spending thresholds and sending alerts. AWS Cost Explorer provides the ability to analyze historical cost data and forecast future costs. Together, these tools address the finance team's need for monitoring, forecasting, and controlling AWS spending effectively.
- A. Correct.
AWS Budgets allows you to set custom spending thresholds and send alerts when costs or usage exceed defined limits, making it suitable for monitoring and controlling costs proactively.
- B. Correct.
AWS Cost Explorer provides detailed cost analysis, forecasting, and historical data visualization, which helps with understanding and predicting AWS spending trends.
- C. Incorrect.
AWS Pricing Calculator is used for estimating costs of AWS services before deployment but does not provide ongoing cost monitoring or historical analysis.
- D. Incorrect.
AWS Trusted Advisor offers recommendations to optimize costs, improve security, and enhance performance, but it does not include features for budget alerts or historical cost analysis.
- E. Incorrect.
AWS Cost and Usage Report provides granular cost and usage data, but it lacks user-friendly visualization tools or forecasting capabilities needed for proactive monitoring and threshold alerts.