AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 630

A company wants to receive alerts to monitor its overall operating costs for its AWS public cloud infrastructure.

Which AWS offering will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Amazon EventBridge
• B. Compute Savings Plans
• C. AWS Budgets
• D. Migration Evaluator

Correct answer: C

Explanation

AWS Budgets allows users to set custom budgets that trigger alerts when cost or usage exceeds, or is forecasted to exceed, a specified threshold. Amazon EventBridge is used for event-driven application routing, Compute Savings Plans are a flexible pricing model to reduce EC2/Fargate costs, and Migration Evaluator is used for planning migrations to AWS, making none of them suitable for cost-monitoring alerts.