AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 632

A company wants to track the monthly cost and usage of all Amazon EC2 instances in a specific AWS environment.

Which AWS service or tool will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
• B. AWS Budgets
• C. AWS Compute Optimizer
• D. AWS Trusted Advisor

Correct answer: B

Explanation

AWS Budgets allows organizations to set custom budgets that track their AWS cost and usage, making it the ideal tool to monitor monthly EC2 instance expenditures. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is designed to identify unexpected spending spikes rather than ongoing tracking, while AWS Compute Optimizer and AWS Trusted Advisor provide resource optimization and best-practice recommendations rather than cost tracking.