AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 465

A company uses AWS Organizations. A member account has purchased a Compute Savings Plan. Because of changes in the workloads inside the member account, the account no longer receives the full benefit of the Compute Savings Plan commitment. The company uses less than 50% of its purchased compute power.

Answer options

• A. Turn on discount sharing from the Billing Preferences section of the account console in the member account that purchased the Compute Savings Plan.
• B. Turn on discount sharing from the Billing Preferences section of the account console in the company's Organizations management account.
• C. Migrate additional compute workloads from another AWS account to the account that has the Compute Savings Plan.
• D. Sell the excess Savings Plan commitment in the Reserved Instance Marketplace.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

By default, Savings Plans benefits are shared across all accounts in an AWS Organizations consolidated billing family, but if this behavior has been modified, sharing must be configured and managed from the Organizations management (payer) account. Member accounts do not have the administrative authority to enable or disable discount sharing for the organization. Additionally, Savings Plans cannot be sold on the Reserved Instance Marketplace, and migrating workloads is an unnecessary operational overhead compared to enabling discount sharing.