SOA-C02 Question 307
Select 2Your organization has a monthly budget of $10,000 for AWS usage. As a SysOps Administrator, you are tasked with ensuring that the finance team is notified when 80% and 100% of the budget is reached. You also need to ensure that no additional spending happens beyond the $10,000 limit. How can you achieve this using AWS Budgets?
- A
Create an AWS Budget with a threshold of 80% and set up an email notification to the finance team.
- B
Set up a second AWS Budget with a threshold of 100% and configure it to notify the finance team via email.
- C
Enable budget actions in AWS Budgets to automatically freeze all resources when the 100% budget threshold is met.
- D
Use AWS Organizations to enforce Service Control Policies (SCPs) that prevent services from incurring costs beyond $10,000.
- E
Create a CloudWatch Alarm to monitor billing and configure it to stop all running EC2 instances once the $10,000 limit is reached.
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Correct answers: A, B
Explanation
AWS Budgets is designed to help track and manage costs by setting thresholds and sending notifications. To notify the finance team at 80% and 100% of the budget, you can create two separate budgets with corresponding thresholds and configure email notifications. However, AWS Budgets does not have the capability to automatically stop resources or enforce a hard spending limit. Resource management must be handled separately, and other services like SCPs or CloudWatch Alarms are not designed to work directly with budgeting limits.
- A. Correct.
Correct: By creating an AWS Budget with an 80% threshold, you can send an email notification to the finance team when the threshold is reached. This helps keep stakeholders informed.
- B. Correct.
Correct: Setting up a second AWS Budget with a 100% threshold ensures that the finance team is notified when the full budget is consumed.
- C. Incorrect.
Incorrect: AWS Budgets does not support automatic resource freezing or stopping. Budget actions can only be used to apply IAM policies or service quotas, but cannot directly freeze resources.
- D. Incorrect.
Incorrect: While AWS Organizations and SCPs can restrict spending to some extent, they cannot enforce a hard cap on AWS account usage. SCPs are not directly tied to AWS Budgets.
- E. Incorrect.
Incorrect: CloudWatch Alarms can monitor billing metrics, but they cannot automatically stop services or running instances based on budget thresholds.