AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 919

Which AWS service is always provided at no charge?

Answer options

• A. Amazon S3
• B. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• C. Elastic Load Balancers
• D. AWS WAF

Correct answer: B

Explanation

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a core security feature of AWS that is always provided at no additional charge. In contrast, services like Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancers, and AWS WAF incur charges based on storage, data processed, and web requests respectively.