Question 160
An AWS planning meeting highlights two independent requirements. Finding 1: A finance lead wants to compare the last six months of AWS costs by linked account and service category. Finding 2: A manager creates an AWS budget and assumes it will automatically stop every workload the moment the monthly target is exceeded. Which two-part response addresses both findings in order?
Explanation
Correct Answer
For finding 1: Cost Explorer helps analyze past and forecasted usage costs rather than serving as an infrastructure provisioning tool. For finding 2: Budget alarms alone do not cancel all AWS resource usage or guarantee hard spending caps. Both actions are required.
Incorrect Answers
For finding 1: Cost Explorer helps analyze past and forecasted usage costs rather than serving as an infrastructure provisioning tool. That action addresses a different situation: A product group wants an email warning before estimated monthly AWS spending exceeds its approved threshold.
The actions are reversed. The correct order is (1) Explore historical spending trends with AWS Cost Explorer and available account or service filters. (2) Verify which budget actions or other enforcement mechanisms are configured instead of treating an alert threshold as an automatic universal stop.
For finding 2: Budget alarms alone do not cancel all AWS resource usage or guarantee hard spending caps. That action addresses a different situation: An engineering team wants to understand why its bill increased but only compares total invoice amounts without a breakdown.






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