AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 465

Which of the following services is offered by CloudWatch?

Answer options

• A. Fixing broken links on the client's instances
• B. Creating IAM users for all services in AWS
• C. Monitoring estimated AWS charges
• D. Balancing the request load between various instances

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Amazon CloudWatch allows users to monitor estimated AWS charges by setting up billing alarms that trigger when costs exceed a specified threshold. Other tasks like managing IAM users, balancing network traffic, or repairing application-level broken links are handled by IAM, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), or the application developers themselves, respectively.