SAP-C02 Question 537
Select 3A company has multiple AWS accounts under an AWS Organization. They want to ensure they can track costs for each account, set up notifications when spending exceeds a predefined threshold, and generate detailed monthly cost reports. Which combination of actions will help the company achieve their goals?
- A
Enable Cost Explorer across all accounts in the AWS Organization.
- B
Set up AWS Budgets with notifications for each account to alert when spending exceeds thresholds.
- C
Use AWS Cost Categories to group and organize spend by account or business unit.
- D
Create an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor spending and trigger alerts.
- E
Use AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) to generate detailed monthly cost reports.
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Correct answers: B, C, E
Explanation
To meet the company's requirements of tracking costs across accounts, setting up cost threshold notifications, and generating detailed reports, the combination of AWS Budgets, AWS Cost Categories, and AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) is the most appropriate solution. AWS Budgets provides the necessary notifications for cost thresholds, AWS Cost Categories organizes costs by account or business unit, and CUR offers the detailed cost and usage data needed for monthly reports.
- A. Incorrect.
Enabling Cost Explorer is useful for visualizing cost and usage data, but it alone does not provide notifications or detailed reporting. It is not sufficient to meet all the requirements outlined in the scenario.
- B. Correct.
AWS Budgets allow you to set custom cost or usage thresholds and send notifications when those thresholds are exceeded, making it a key component of the solution.
- C. Correct.
AWS Cost Categories help organize and group costs by account, project, or business unit, which is essential for tracking costs across multiple accounts in the AWS Organization.
- D. Incorrect.
Amazon CloudWatch alarms are primarily used to monitor system performance metrics or events rather than tracking spending or generating cost reports. This is not the best fit for the scenario.
- E. Correct.
AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) provide detailed, comprehensive cost data, which can be used to generate monthly reports, fulfilling the reporting requirement in the scenario.