Question 426 - SAA-C03 discussion

Workload Discovery on AWS (formerly called AWS Perspective) is a tool that visualizes AWS Cloud workloads. It maintains an inventory of the AWS resources across your accounts and Regions, mapping relationships between them, and displaying them in a web UI. It also allows you to query AWS Cost and Usage Reports, search for resources, save and export architecture diagrams, and more1. By using Workload Discovery on AWS, the solution can build and map the relationship details of the various workloads across all accounts with the least operational effort.

a) Use AWS Systems Manager Inventory to generate a map view from the detailed view report. This solution will not meet the requirement of building and mapping the relationship details of the various workloads across all accounts, as AWS Systems Manager Inventory is a feature that collects metadata from your managed instances and stores it in a central Amazon S3 bucket. It does not provide a map view or architecture diagrams of the workloads2.

b) Use AWS Step Functions to collect workload details Build architecture diagrams of the work-loads manually. This solution will not meet the requirement of the least operational effort, as it involves creating and managing state machines to orchestrate the workload details collection, and building architecture diagrams manually.

d) Use AWS X-Ray to view the workload details Build architecture diagrams with relationships. This solution will not meet the requirement of the least operational effort, as it involves instrumenting your applications with X-Ray SDKs to collect workload details, and building architecture diagrams manually.

Reference URL: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/workload-discovery-on-aws/