AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 140

A company received its latest bill with a large increase in the number of requests against Amazon SQS as compared to the month prior. The company is not aware of any changes in its SQS usage. The company is concerned about the cost increase and who or what was making these calls.
What should the SysOps Administrator use to validate the calls made to SQS?

Answer options

• A. AWS CloudTrail
• B. Amazon CloudWatch
• C. AWS Cost Explorer
• D. Amazon S3 server access logs

Correct answer: A

Explanation

AWS CloudTrail is the appropriate tool for tracking API calls made to Amazon SQS, providing detailed logs of who made each call. Amazon CloudWatch monitors metrics but doesn't provide specific API call details. AWS Cost Explorer helps analyze costs but doesn't track usage. Amazon S3 server access logs are unrelated as they pertain to S3 and not SQS.