SOA-C02 Question 301
Select 3Your company has several EC2 instances running in a development environment. These instances have low CPU utilization and are incurring unnecessary costs. As an AWS SysOps Administrator, which AWS services or tools can you use to identify underutilized instances and recommend optimizations?
- A
AWS Trusted Advisor
- B
AWS Compute Optimizer
- C
AWS Cost Explorer
- D
Amazon CloudWatch
- E
AWS Systems Manager
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Correct answers: A, B, C
Explanation
To identify and remediate underutilized or unused resources, AWS provides tools like Trusted Advisor, Compute Optimizer, and Cost Explorer, which are specifically designed to offer insights and recommendations for optimizing costs and usage. Trusted Advisor highlights idle resources, Compute Optimizer provides rightsizing suggestions, and Cost Explorer helps analyze cost and usage patterns. While CloudWatch and Systems Manager are valuable tools, they do not directly address identifying underutilized resources.
- A. Correct.
AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations on cost optimization, including identifying underutilized resources such as idle EC2 instances.
- B. Correct.
AWS Compute Optimizer analyzes the configuration and usage patterns of EC2 instances and provides recommendations for rightsizing or downsizing underutilized resources.
- C. Correct.
AWS Cost Explorer helps you visualize and analyze your cost and usage data, which can help identify services or instances with low utilization.
- D. Incorrect.
Amazon CloudWatch monitors performance metrics but does not directly provide recommendations for underutilized or unused resources.
- E. Incorrect.
AWS Systems Manager helps you manage and automate tasks across your resources but is not specifically designed to identify or recommend optimizations for underutilized resources.