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CLF-C02 practice question: Budgets and cost tools (1 of 2)
Billing, Pricing, and Support A free question from our original CLF-C02 practice exam. Try it, then open the answer to see why each option is right or wrong.
Before building anything, a solutions team wants to estimate the monthly and annual cost of a planned architecture that uses Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS and Amazon S3, and share the estimate with the finance team. Which AWS tool should it use?
Choose one answer.
- AA. AWS Cost Explorer
- BB. AWS Budgets
- CC. AWS Pricing Calculator
- DD. AWS Cost and Usage Report
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Answer: C
- A. Wrong: Cost Explorer analyses and forecasts costs from usage you already have. It cannot price an architecture that has not been built.
- B. Wrong: Budgets tracks actual or forecast spending against a limit you set. It does not estimate the cost of a design.
- C. Right: Correct. The Pricing Calculator models planned solutions and produces upfront, monthly and annual estimates that can be exported or shared.
- D. Wrong: The Cost and Usage Report contains detailed data about past usage, not estimates for planned resources.
Explanation
AWS Pricing Calculator is a free planning tool for estimating the cost of AWS services before you use them. You can group services to match your architecture, see the calculation behind each estimate, and export or share the result. Cost Explorer, Budgets and the Cost and Usage Report all work with costs you have actually incurred.
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