AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) — Question 375

A company has AWS accounts that are in an organization in AWS Organizations. The company wants to track Amazon EC2 usage as a metric. The company’s architecture team must receive a daily alert if the EC2 usage is more than 10% higher the average EC2 usage from the last 30 days.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Configure AWS Budgets in the organization's management account. Specify a usage type of EC2 running hours. Specify a daily period. Set the budget amount to be 10% more than the reported average usage for the last 30 days from AWS Cost Explorer. Configure an alert to notify the architecture team if the usage threshold is met
• B. Configure AWS Cost Anomaly Detection in the organization's management account. Configure a monitor type of AWS Service. Apply a filter of Amazon EC2. Configure an alert subscription to notify the architecture team if the usage is 10% more than the average usage for the last 30 days.
• C. Enable AWS Trusted Advisor in the organization's management account. Configure a cost optimization advisory alert to notify the architecture team if the EC2 usage is 10% more than the reported average usage for the last 30 days.
• D. Configure Amazon Detective in the organization's management account. Configure an EC2 usage anomaly alert to notify the architecture team if Detective identifies a usage anomaly of more than 10%.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS Budgets is the correct tool because it allows users to set custom budgets to track both costs and usage, specifically supporting EC2 running hours with daily granularity and custom alert thresholds. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is designed for cost anomalies rather than raw usage metric tracking, and neither AWS Trusted Advisor nor Amazon Detective offers the capability to configure custom daily usage threshold alerts.