AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 109

The Accounting department would like to receive billing updates more than once a month. They would like the updates to be in a format that can easily be viewed with a spreadsheet application.
How can this request be fulfilled?

Answer options

• A. Use Amazon CloudWatch Events to schedule a billing inquiry on a bi-weekly basis. Use AWS Glue to convert the output to CSV.
• B. Set AWS Cost and Usage Reports to publish bills daily to an Amazon S3 bucket in CSV format.
• C. Use the AWS CLI to output billing data as JSON. Use Amazon SES to email bills on a daily basis.
• D. Use AWS Lambda, triggered by CloudWatch, to query billing data and push to Amazon RDS.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Option B is correct because it directly configures AWS Cost and Usage Reports to deliver daily billing data in CSV format, which meets the Accounting department's requirements. Option A schedules billing inquiries bi-weekly but does not provide the required format directly. Option C outputs data in JSON, which is not as easily viewable in spreadsheet applications as CSV. Option D involves AWS Lambda and Amazon RDS, which does not align with the request for easily viewable billing updates.