Question 440
A cloud adoption review identifies two separate needs. Finding 1: A workload is sized for 24-hour peak traffic even though metrics show the peak lasts only thirty minutes daily. Finding 2: A finance department assumes the lowest monthly AWS invoice always represents the best architecture regardless of availability or security risk. Which two-part response addresses both findings in order?
Explanation
Correct Answer
For finding 1: Idle overprovisioned capacity is a controllable cost when usage can be measured and adjusted. For finding 2: Cost optimization is about justified business value, not simply eliminating every protective resource. Both actions are required.
Incorrect Answers
The actions are reversed. The correct order is (1) Apply the Cost Optimization pillar to review demand and rightsize or scale the resources against measured requirements. (2) Evaluate cost improvements alongside service objectives and guardrails instead of treating minimum spend as the sole goal.
For finding 1: Idle overprovisioned capacity is a controllable cost when usage can be measured and adjusted. That action addresses a different situation: An analytics job reruns full historical processing every hour despite receiving only a small amount of new information.
For finding 2: Cost optimization is about justified business value, not simply eliminating every protective resource. That action addresses a different situation: A company wants to assess the environmental impact of its IT design but compares suppliers only by data center building age.






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