AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 666

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 centralized AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) from the AWS Organizations management account consolidates billing data across all member accounts, which can then be efficiently visualized and filtered for each team using Amazon QuickSight. AWS Resource Access Manager and AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter are not designed for generating or visualizing CUR billing data, making options A and D incorrect. Additionally, creating individual CURs in hundreds of member accounts as suggested in Option C introduces unnecessary administrative overhead compared to a single centralized report.