AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) — Question 522

A company has created an OU in AWS Organizations for each of its engineering teams. Each OU owns multiple AWS accounts. The organization has hundreds of AWS accounts.
A solutions architect must design a solution so that each OU can view a breakdown of usage costs across its AWS accounts.
Which solution meets these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) for each OU by using AWS Resource Access Manager. Allow each team to visualize the CUR through an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.
• B. Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) from the AWS Organizations management account. Allow each team to visualize the CUR through an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.
• C. Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) in each AWS Organizations member account. Allow each team to visualize the CUR through an Amazon QuickSight dashboard.
• D. Create an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) by using AWS Systems Manager. Allow each team to visualize the CUR through Systems Manager OpsCenter dashboards.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Generating a single AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) from the AWS Organizations management account provides a centralized, comprehensive billing dataset for all member accounts, which can then be easily filtered by OU inside Amazon QuickSight. Creating individual CURs in hundreds of member accounts is operationally inefficient, while AWS RAM and AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter are not designed for CUR delivery or cost visualization.