AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 674

A company uses Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda to run multiple workloads in the company's AWS account. The company wants to fully make use of its Compute Savings Plans. The company wants to receive notification when coverage of the Compute Savings Plans drops.

Which solution will meet these requirements with the MOST operational efficiency?

Answer options

• A. Create a daily budget for the Savings Plans by using AWS Budgets. Configure the budget with a coverage threshold to send notifications to the appropriate email message recipients.
• B. Create a Lambda function that runs a coverage report against the Savings Plans. Use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) to email the report to the appropriate email message recipients.
• C. Create an AWS Budgets report for the Savings Plans budget. Set the frequency to daily.
• D. Create a Savings Plans alert subscription. Enable all notification options. Enter an email address to receive notifications.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS Budgets allows users to natively track Savings Plans coverage and set up alerts when coverage falls below a user-defined threshold, making Option A the most operationally efficient solution. Option B introduces unnecessary operational overhead by requiring custom code development and maintenance using AWS Lambda and Amazon SES. Options C and D are incorrect because a budget report only sends scheduled summaries rather than threshold-based alerts, and standalone 'Savings Plans alert subscriptions' do not exist as a native feature.