AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 311

A company needs to organize its resources and track AWS costs on a detailed level. The company needs to categorize costs by business department, environment, and application.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Access the AWS Cost Management console to organize resources, set an AWS budget, and receive notifications of unintentional usage.
• B. Use tags to organize the resources. Activate cost allocation tags to track AWS costs on a detailed level.
• C. Create Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to visually organize and track costs individually.
• D. Access the AWS Billing and Cost Management dashboard to organize and track resource consumption on a detailed level.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Cost allocation tags allow users to categorize and track AWS costs on a detailed level by labeling resources with key-value pairs like department, environment, or application. While AWS Budgets, CloudWatch, and the Billing Dashboard help monitor costs, they do not inherently organize resources or categorize costs by custom metadata without the use of tags. Therefore, activating cost allocation tags is the correct method to meet these specific categorization requirements.