SAP-C02 Question 534
Select 3A large e-commerce company is using multiple AWS accounts for their production, development, and testing environments. The company wants to implement a cost management solution to gain better visibility into their spending, receive alerts when costs exceed specified thresholds, and generate detailed reports for each account's usage. Which combination of AWS services and features should you recommend?
- A
Use AWS Budgets to create cost and usage alerts for each account.
- B
Enable Cost Explorer in each account and use it to visually analyze cost trends.
- C
Activate AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) and configure it to deliver reports to an S3 bucket.
- D
Use AWS Trusted Advisor to generate detailed spending reports for each account.
- E
Enable AWS Organizations with consolidated billing and use Service Control Policies (SCPs) to restrict spending.
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Correct answers: A, B, C
Explanation
To achieve cost visibility, alerting, and reporting across multiple AWS accounts, a combination of AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer, and AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) is recommended. Budgets provide cost thresholds and alerts, Cost Explorer allows you to analyze trends visually, and CUR delivers detailed cost data for deeper analysis. While AWS Trusted Advisor and SCPs in AWS Organizations have their own roles, they do not fully meet the stated requirements for cost management, alerting, and reporting.
- A. Correct.
Correct: AWS Budgets allow you to create cost and usage alerts based on predefined thresholds, which is essential for proactive cost management.
- B. Correct.
Correct: Cost Explorer provides detailed visualizations of your AWS spending and usage trends, helping you analyze and optimize costs effectively.
- C. Correct.
Correct: AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) provide detailed data about AWS usage and costs, and delivering these reports to S3 allows for further analysis.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect: AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations for cost optimization but does not generate detailed spending reports. This feature is not sufficient for the stated requirements.
- E. Incorrect.
Incorrect: While AWS Organizations with consolidated billing centralizes cost management, SCPs are used to enforce policies on services, not to manage or alert on costs directly.