AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 691

A company plans to launch an ecommerce website that contains many images for a product catalog. The company wants to keep the cost of running the website within a specific budget.

Which AWS service or tool should the company use to monitor the ongoing costs of the website?

Answer options

• A. AWS Cost Explorer
• B. AWS SDKs
• C. EC2 Image Builder
• D. AWS CloudFormation

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS Cost Explorer is the ideal tool for visualizing, tracking, and analyzing AWS expenditures over time to help manage budget limits. AWS SDKs are used for programmatic resource management, EC2 Image Builder automates virtual machine image creation, and AWS CloudFormation provides infrastructure as code, making none of them suitable for financial monitoring.