Tag: Question 171

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C01 – Question171

A user has launched multiple EC2 instances for the purpose of development and testing in the same region. The user wants to find the separate cost for the production and development instances. How can the user find the cost distribution?

A. The user should download the activity report of the EC2 services as it has the instance ID wise data
B. It is not possible to get the AWS cost usage data of single region instances separately
C. The user should use Cost Distribution Metadata and AWS detailed billing
D. The user should use Cost Allocation Tags and AWS billing reports

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation: AWS provides cost allocation tags to categorize and track the AWS costs. When the user applies tags to his AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon S3 buckets), AWS generates a cost allocation report as a comma-separated value (CSV file) with the usage and costs aggregated by those tags. The user can apply tags which represent business categories (such as cost centers, application names, or instance type – Production/Dev. to organize usage costs across multiple services.