AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03) — Question 817

A company that uses AWS Organizations runs 150 applications across 30 different AWS accounts. The company used AWS Cost and Usage Report to create a new report in the management account. The report is delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket that is replicated to a bucket in the data collection account.

The company’s senior leadership wants to view a custom dashboard that provides NAT gateway costs each day starting at the beginning of the current month.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Share an Amazon QuickSight dashboard that includes the requested table visual. Configure QuickSight to use AWS DataSync to query the new report.
• B. Share an Amazon QuickSight dashboard that includes the requested table visual. Configure QuickSight to use Amazon Athena to query the new report.
• C. Share an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard that includes the requested table visual. Configure CloudWatch to use AWS DataSync to query the new report.
• D. Share an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard that includes the requested table visual. Configure CloudWatch to use Amazon Athena to query the new report.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Amazon QuickSight combined with Amazon Athena is the standard AWS solution for visualizing and querying AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data stored in Amazon S3. AWS DataSync is a data transfer service and cannot be used to query data, ruling out options A and C. Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are designed for monitoring application and resource metrics, not for querying and visualizing granular billing data from S3 using Athena, ruling out options C and D.