AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 814

A company runs its production workload on Amazon EC2 instances with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. A solutions architect needs to analyze the current EBS volume cost and to recommend optimizations. The recommendations need to include estimated monthly saving opportunities.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Use Amazon Inspector reporting to generate EBS volume recommendations for optimization.
• B. Use AWS Systems Manager reporting to determine EBS volume recommendations for optimization.
• C. Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics reporting to determine EBS volume recommendations for optimization.
• D. Use AWS Compute Optimizer to generate EBS volume recommendations for optimization.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

AWS Compute Optimizer uses machine learning to analyze resource utilization metrics and provides cost-saving recommendations for EBS volumes, including estimated monthly savings. Amazon Inspector is used for security vulnerability scanning, and AWS Systems Manager is focused on operational management rather than cost optimization. While Amazon CloudWatch collects performance metrics, it does not natively generate optimization recommendations with cost savings estimates.