AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 461

A company wants to implement detailed tracking of its cloud costs by department and project.

Which AWS feature or service should the company use?

Answer options

• A. Consolidated billing
• B. Cost allocation tags
• C. AWS Marketplace
• D. AWS Budgets

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Cost allocation tags allow businesses to categorize and track their AWS costs in detail by assigning metadata labels, such as department or project name, to their resources. Consolidated billing aggregates billing across multiple accounts but does not provide resource-level categorization, while AWS Budgets is used for setting cost thresholds and alerts rather than detailed categorization.