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CLF-C02 practice question: Budgets and cost tools (2 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.
A company's data team wants the most detailed AWS cost and usage data available, with line items for each product and usage type at an hourly level, delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket so it can load the data into its own analytics tools. What should it set up?
Choose one answer.
- AA. AWS Budgets alerts sent by email and SNS
- BB. Cost and Usage Reports via AWS Data Exports
- CC. Saved AWS Pricing Calculator estimates
- DD. The AWS Health Dashboard event log
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: B
- A. Wrong: Budgets sends alerts when costs or usage cross thresholds. It does not deliver detailed line-item data files.
- B. Right: Correct. Cost and Usage Reports provide the most comprehensive cost and usage data, by hour, day or month, delivered to an S3 bucket.
- C. Wrong: The Pricing Calculator estimates planned costs. It does not report on actual usage.
- D. Wrong: The Health Dashboard shows service events affecting your account, not cost data.
Explanation
AWS Cost and Usage Reports, created through AWS Data Exports, are the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data. They are delivered as files to an S3 bucket you own, with line items at hourly, daily or monthly granularity, and can be queried with Amazon Athena or loaded into Amazon Redshift or other analytics tools.
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