AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty DAS-C01 – Question047

An ecommerce company ingests a large set of clickstream data in JSON format and stores the data in Amazon S3. Business analysts from multiple product divisions need to use Amazon Athena to analyze the data. The company's analytics team must design a solution to monitor the daily data usage for Athena by each product division. The solution also must produce a warning when a division exceeds its quota.
Which solution will meet these requirements with the LEAST operational overhead?

A.
Use a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) statement to create separate tables for each product division. Use AWS Budgets to track Athena usage. Configure a threshold for the budget. Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send notifications when thresholds are breached.
B. Create an AWS account for each division. Provide cross-account access to an AWS Glue Data Catalog to all the accounts. Set an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor Athena usage. Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send notifications.
C. Create an Athena workgroup for each division. Configure a data usage control for each workgroup and a time period of 1 day. Configure an action to send notifications to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic.
D. Create an AWS account for each division. Configure an AWS Glue Data Catalog in each account. Set an Amazon CloudWatch alarm to monitor Athena usage. Use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send notifications.

Correct Answer: A

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